Comprehensive Energy Solutions?

I listened to Bill Richardson mention recently that "We need a comprehensive energy policy" and I immediately thought "what we need is a "comprehensive energy study" first; then we can talk of a "comprehensive energy program". Everyone is running about like a chicken yard full of panicked chickens crying "we need to drill, drill, drill"; or saying other things like "fill up your tank with nuclear power". The public has no idea of what the real numbers are, what solutions are "special interest" based, how much time we have before the crunch happens, or anything else. The people need a consortium drawn up of engineers, geologists, economists, scientists of all kinds to gather facts and derive answers, timetables, and realistic nonpartisan solutions. Without defining the problem we cannot have good answers. So far we have chaos.