Check out this article: Are you worried about your current and future oil, gasoline, electric and natural gas bills? Would you be willing to try solar panels, wind technology or another renewable energy if you knew by doing so the technologies would eventually pay for themselves by vastly lowered utility bills, tax incentives, rebates and more? Well, they can, and here is a brief recap of what is available through the Federal and your State government.
Note that the same people who want to give more "incentives" to oil companies also want to cut back subsidies to homeowners. This offers what you can do, and also links to a great database for every state in the US about what tax incentive, rebates, etc. are available through states & counties. Also, let your congress person and senators know where you want the Money to go in this time of difficult choices. To individuals, or to Exxon Mobil?