Number one is to stand back and not do anything stupid. Governments love to jump into a situation with both feet, and generally screw things up, and then the Word of the Day becomes "unintended consequences."

I can see a connection between water table problems and the Great Ethanol Scheme. Can you?

As far as the energy situation goes, start drilling in the U.S. again, and get some nuclear reactors under construction.

The opposition to new oil fields went past rational a long time ago. Same for the opposition to nuclear power. France has a thirty-year head start on us. We going to be having this same damn discussion thirty years from now?

As for you personally, stop getting most of your news from nutcases. You'll sleep better at night.