Winter will be hell

Today I had to drive my cousin back to his school, in southern Indiana, and I was glad to see low gas prices everywhere I went. While it is great to see the low gas prices, every knows that this gas bliss will not last for long. Later this week, OPEC will be meeting to talk about cutting back on the oil supply, which will obviously jack the prices for gas higher, maybe even higher then they were about a week ago. So, knowing this information, I have a question for the federal government: why is there not more federal spending on alternative energy sources? We all know that last winter, the price for heating homes became almost too painful to bear, and it seems clear to me that this winter will only get worse. Now I am not saying that finding a better alternative fuel source will solve all the U.S.'s problems, but it could certainly help to bring down the price of gas, and hopefully our cooling and heating bills. I think think that it would not hurt to invest more time and money into stuff like E85, but also stuff that has worked in the past. I may get persecuted for this but, I think that something else that we could look to is nuclear power. It is clean, efficient, and is pretty good for providing energy. (Yes, I know about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.) It can be easily known that while nuclear energy can have great benefits, it does have some major drawbacks, which include storage of nuclear waste, and the use of the energy and waste being used as deadly weapons. Surely there is a way to safely use nuclear power, but if not, then shouldn't we be investing more money into safe and more efficient energy sources? Until new energy sources can be found, it just seems that the winter bills will continue to become a living hell for the bill payers of our country.