Conserving Energy and Lowering Energy Bills

This week, the president called for Congress to make policy changes that could open up offshore U.S. coastal areas for oil exploration. The plan, which would end the federal ban on offshore oil drilling on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts and some parts of the eastern Gulf of Mexico and also allow individual states more control over nearby drilling, is supported by Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

In several speeches this week, McCain discussed his potential energy policy, which calls for increased energy production, including more nuclear plants. But whatever happened to energy conservation?