Absolutely. There are many countries that realize the problem--particularly countries who've never had hardly any oil production. They sense the problem more than anybody. We probably don't sense it as much because we've always had our own supply of oil and we're oversupplied with oil.
But there is a big problem out there, and yes, anything the government could do to create other sources of energy--as long as they weren't consuming more energy to produce than the output--then yes, we should do that.