it domestically. >> this thing pops open when you press a button. >> reporter: for woolsey, plugging the car into your house isn't just going green. >> i think it would be a very large message. it would say that the united states can get its act together. >> reporter: sending one more signal to al qaeda that they're running on empty. >> jim acosta joins us live from washington. good to see you. getting off foreign oil. it will take some time. what is the thinking here? >> yeah. you know there are no expressways on the road to energy independence. consider the electric car. if you have millions of new electric cars on the road, you will need lots of new charging stations and that infrastructure is not in place yet. if you go to the answer that republicans are putting forward and some democrats, we need more off-shore domestic oil drilling, energy analysts will tell you that will not have an impact on gas prices for years down the road. there are no quick fixes. but jim woolsey says we have to get going one of these days