The US is not in a good position when it comes to oil, it's a fact. The problem is our government is scared of change in such a big way. But if we could just get a pair and man up then they have the excuse of "It's to big of a plan." Well if we can get the man up part right then here is a possible plan.
When WWII was raging the automotive industry was given an ultimatum- convert all of your production to tanks or be closed down, most of them chose the 1st. If we can do that again except with wind turbines instead of tanks we can have a big part of our energy converted to wind instead of oil, that would be a tremendous leap.
Once that is done we can give another ultimatum, again to the automative industry. this time it would be change your production to ethanol or get shut down. of course we would need ethanol to fuel these cars so we could instead of importing our spare corn we can put the spare corn to ethanol companies and let them go crazy. Of course many gas cars will still be in circulation so we can use the gas we saved from the windmills to ween the country of oil in cars.
The last major use of oil is in making plastics and synthetic fibers. This will be hard to get rid of since this industry is gaining momentum. To combat regular plastics we can use alternatives you already see on the market to make smaller items like cups, and we can just inflate that industry. Many alternatives to synthetic fibers are already avalable so we can also give money and advertisment to that industry.
Of course there are many uses for oil that aren't mentioned here so to provide for those we can either drill for oild in Alaska or just continue to buy that bit from the middle east. All in all, if we follow this plan more or less, our country's dependance on oil will be much reduced, putting us in a much better situation all around.
