The Heritage Foundation held a conference with the guest speaker George Allen, former Republican Governor/Senator of Virginia, on what happens when the state you live in turns left. Allen said that we as a nation need to restart our creative engines. Allen spoke about the different issues that currently affecting the American people. Education and clean affordable fuel were two topics he focused on the most.

“The next step for education reform is school choice. Every family should have the same option to choose where they to go to school,” Allen said. Allen said that he believes that it shouldn’t matter what economic class or social class a child falls into when focusing on school placement, but it should depend on what school will affect a child the most in a positive way.

Allen also spoke about clean and affordable fuel and new steps that America needs to take to take on this problem. “Americans are not addicted to oil. Americans are addicted to freedom, the freedom to move where and when we want. We don’t care if oil comes from Alaska or Louisiana, just as long as it’s clean and affordable,” Allen said. He also believes that the focus for clean fuel should be placed on coal and solar. With solar being virtually free and coal, the second least expensive natural resource available, Allen believes that those two are the key to the future for America.