I think I’ve stumbled across the solution to our problem of addiction to fuel of foreign origin and am going to share it with you now.

One of the most promising forms of alternate fuel is biodiesel, in that it requires no significant investment to run in many of today’s cars. There’s one little problem with biodiesel, though: we can’t possibly grow enough plant matter to supply all of our cars’ consumptive needs. Even if we all became vegetarians and stopped farming cattle — instead using all the plant matter we feed to them now to make biodiesel instead — we wouldn’t have enough. In addition, if we all stopped eating PLANTS as well as cattle, all the crops we grow now wouldn’t be enough to power our cars either.

There are many different forms of local, renewable non-oil fuel that have been discussed, be they electric, solar, smug, hydrogen or a multitude of others. The problem with those is that there’s no easy way to quickly convert existing cars to this new, untested fuel.

This means that if we’re going to adopt one of these fuels for use in all our Escalades and Hummers, it’s probably going to involve quitting oil “cold turkey,” buying new alternate-energy-powered Escalades and Hummers. This is a significant hassle. A “deal-breaker,” if I may. Americans are simply not going to want to get rid of their old Escalades and Hummers before their leases are up. This means that a hypothetical switchover will take years and years to complete in a best-case scenario, and more likely will never even begin at all.

It was while thinking of this problem that I stumbled suddenly upon my solution: cold turkey. Every Thanksgiving, billions of American households cook copious amounts of turkey, much of which never even gets eaten. I propose legislation both mandating a minimum size for Thanksgiving turkeys and limits on how much each person can consume, ensuring the maximum amount of leftovers.

Suddenly we have billions of pounds of turkey which can be rendered down into biodiesel to fuel our existing Hummers. You’re welcome, America.