There is a way, is there a will?

According to Robert Kennedy Jr: "North Dakota, Kansas and Texas alone produce enough harnessable wind to meet all of the nation's electricty demand. As for solar, according to a study in Scientific American, photovoltaic and solar-thermal installations across just 19 percent of the most barren desert land in the Southwest could supply nearly all of our nation's electricity needs without any rooftop installation, even assuming every American owned a plug-in hybrid."