Here's the Democrats plan to deal with the energy prices without actually allowing any new energy. If they won't permit an increase in supply (and they clearly won't), you are compelled to reduce demand, i.e. regulate how people live their everyday lives.

Use taxpayer money to expand public transportation. It takes years, YEARS to build a light rail line, and it will do nothing to reduce the price of gas today, tomorrow, or next year. We can't train our way out of this, it’s a hoax. That's the Democrats argument against drilling for oil, why isn't it applicable to public transportation as well?

Encourage auto insurance policies with lower premiums for low mileage drivers. My insurance carrier already gives me a discount for having a short commute. How will government "encouragement" mean anything at all?

Provide incentives to take the bus, ride a bike, carpool, or walk to work. What form, precisely, these "incentives" might take is never specified. And really, this wouldn't apply to people that already live close enough to walk or bike, because unless you live a mile or less from the office, this is pretty impractable for those of us that don't want to sit around perspiring in our work clothes for the first hour.

Help create "walkable, bikeable" communities. Ed Koch tried this in New York after visiting China, installing bike lanes on the large avenues of Manhattan. It failed miserably. If it didn't work in a fairly compact area like Manhattan Island, why does anybody think it will work elsewhere?

Educate Americans to make "smart" transportation and housing choices. Americans aren't smart enough to make "smart" choices? And now a bunch of politicians living in mansions and riding in limos and private jets want to "educate" us to be "smart" like them? Condescending asshats.

Create special low-cost mortagages for housing near transit stops. Yeah, that's the ticket. Government intervention in the mortgage market. The last time that was tried, it was to get more loans available to poor borrowers. The result was subprime mortgages and the resulting and entirely predictable foreclosures.

Upgrade government websites. Yeah, a better interface at IRS dot GOV is going to save us trillions of gallons.

What a bunch of tools. I can't decide which of the following scenarios is worse: either these politicians think we are stupid enough to believe this asshattery will provide any meaningful change in energy use, or they are themselves are stupid enough to believe it.