What would take longer, drilling for oil or discovering alternative fuel sources?

We don't have to "discover" alternative energy, just exploit it. If the US government put the same $$ into solar/wind/hydro etc. that it put into Oil, the development would accelerate from 50% per year to 200% per year! If Bush hadn't put roadblcks infront of "forced" electric car development we would be seeing far more electric cars already and could even be looking at Oil consumption dropping now. We're a bit behind, but we put a man on the moon so this is a wlk in the park if we had an inspired (inspiring) leader (Obama '08)