Translated: use up our resources first, so when they get scarcer, we're more dependent on others.
Maybe, if we didn't have what equates to nearly inexhaustible resources in this country you'd have a point. But we do. So, you don't. We should not depend on others to provide what we can easily extract ourselves....we should be building Nuke plants every year, fracking like mad, exploring our Arctic oil resources which are VAST and virtually untapped, reinvigorating our clean coal industries...and yes, continuing to improve our solar, water and other passive energy technologies. The old "all the above" approach that actually creates jobs, creates exportable resources, and gives us freedom from the economic obeisance we've had to give to the Middle East.