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CharlieFoxtrot:
Wind power costs a lot of money and some states/areas are simply not windy enough. South Dakota can but then the problem is sending it to other states. Electric cars are an example of the free market-they suck and nobody wants them. There is no quick, easy, or cheap fix to replace oil. There is no conspiracy to keep oil as the main source of fuel. It is simply the cheapest and easiest form of fuel now.
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There is enough wind power on the West Coast and Midwest to supply most of the nation. It's not such a problem delivering the energy and I have never read that it is more costly. As I say the technology is still in it's early stages and if developed will easily be more efficient and cheaper.
Electric cars were a success but they were only leased and then recalled. Owners did not want to return them but were forced to. The car companies were pressured by the oil companies.
There has been a conspiracy to keep oil as the more source of fuel for decades. Jimmy Carter, realizing what was to come, began research on alternative energy sources and put solar panels in the White House. He gave tax credits and incentives for business and people to develop and use alternative energy. Reagan and Bush Sr were heavily backed by the oil corporations. When they were elected they ended all research programs and removed the solar panels.
OPEC reduced the price to freeze out alternative research then when the programs were killed raised it again. That's just one example.
Another is the war for oil today in the Mideast. What kind of sense does it make to spend billions of dollars and thousands of lives over a resource that is finite and will only increase in cost? We should be developing alternative sources but it's really only "discussed" as a token issue.