Perhaps this is a quiet nod to the scientists and he is simply acknowledging that energy can neither be created nor destroyed?

Moving into stasis is the ultimate conservative position. We'll just freeze time if we can't move it back to the 19th century.

Be fair on the guy, he said "within a decade" which is something quite different from "in this decade" (at least as I read it). What he says is crazy enough as it is...

Well, that's not quite what he said. If you listen to the actual clip, he said "we ought to declare that we will be ... ah ... oil free of energy consumption in this country within a decade." I'm not sure what "oil free of energy consumption" really means; if Huckabee thinks we can really eliminate all use of oil for energy within a decade, he's well beyond bold. Maybe, as various people have remarked, he just means eliminating oil imports. But I don't think we can really tag him with saying that we should or could eliminate all consumption of energy.

Huckabee's statement "And we ought to declare that we will be free of energy consumption in this country within a decade, bold as that is" may have been a failed attempt to restate that we should eliminate dependence on foreign oil. However, on its face the statement reinforces my impression that Huckabee is complete scientific illiterate. Only a scientific illiterate like Huckabee would be proud to say that he/she doesn't believe in evolution.

It's easy to pile on the Huckster, because he does say so many crazy things. But it's pretty hard to top freeing a violent rapist for political reasons, because he was jailed under Clinton for raping a distant cousin, who then rapes and kills two victims. Talk about total lack of judgment and sleazy politics.

But, the good news is, even the Huckster, who is about as far behind the curve as it gets, STILL feels the need to address Global Climate Change. About time. Only several years ago he and all Republicans were vehemently denying it as a liberal conspiracy or some nonsense.