The US imports about 6.5 million short tons of coal per year. The State of Wyoming produces about 465 MILLION short tons of coal per year.I want to get off foreign oil and coal as soon as possible that means transitioning away from oil(transportation) and coal(power generation).
I want to fast track nuclear power plant building, natural gas production, solar, wind.
I mean actually doing it not just shuffling are feat along like the U.S is doing now.
We don't import shit for coal, we produce about 1.2 Billion short tons per year for use here and for our Yearly Coal exportation of 15 million Short tons. So we could not import any coal at all, still have all the coal we needed for power production and still Export 9 million short tons of it every year.
We Produce 160 million barrels of oil per month of USA oil, import 50 million and export 1.8 million barrels. No doubt we import quite a bit of oil. we could sure do better there.
I agree we need more wind and solar power, but you can't go blaming foreigners for supplying us with fossil fuels when we do the majority of the supplying to ourselves.
Statistics taken from http://www.eia.doe.gov/