During discussions in an energy debate that focused mostly on the controversial issue of offshore drilling, Former Vice President Al Gore said the United State’s future must go through a change of its entire electricity sector and shift it to carbon-free wind, solar and geothermal power in the next ten years. The green energy must than be used to power to fuel a new fleet of electric vehicles.

The goal proposed by Gore is probably the most ambitious energy plan of a major U.S. political figure and is considered by many experts as unrealistic and thus unachievable. On the other hand, Gore maintains that the only impediment to this bold project is the reluctance of America's leaders to seek daring solutions to high energy prices and global warming.

While challenging Americans to shift its entire electricity sector, Gore linked the goal proposed by him to President John F. Kennedy's 1961 call to put a man on the moon.

"This goal is achievable, affordable and transformative," said Gore in front of an audience of about 1000 supporters at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall in Washington.

The Former Vice President said that trillions of dollars should be spent in order to remake the United States’ power system, a project which will most likely include numerous technological and political challenges, but which is vital to “the survival of the United States of America as we know it.”

“The future of human civilization is at stake,” he added.

Gore’s approach would require the abandoning of old-fashioned, coal-based power plants, a plan which goes far beyond what even the most daring scientists have come up with so far. The Former Vice President cited the quest for the Moon in the 1960s and underlined the fact that without great dreams, great deeds are never achieved.