Whats wrong with coal? Why should we import oil for power, when we have all the coal we need?

What type of investment? People are already investing in new power... the guy or group who figures out a more cost effective way to generate power than digging oil or coal out of the ground will be the next Rockefeller.

Revolutionizing the future seems kind of vague.

But I more or less agree, except for the coal part. People here in Ohio sit in the unemployment line, while watching as the USA expends trillions overseas in politics and "security" due to oil, while we sit on a huge reserve of coal... and are naturally pretty bitter towards the people who wont let us use it.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)