It's evident to me that our dumping enormous amounts of wealth on middle eastern nations is a tragic mistake.
I am a former opponent of nuke power. I wanted to wait until the safety of the process was a bit more sure. I figured we had plenty of alternatives: coal, US oil reserves, natural energy, hydrogen, etc.
I now believe that any danger I saw in nuke safety are insignificant in comparison to enormous oil wealth enabling radical Islamofascists to become nuclear powers. Their wielding of nuclear weaponry is a far greater security threat and "clean environment" threat than my local utility could ever imagine being.
If my building a nuke plant near here gets this nation to stop buying MidEast oil and adding to Islamofascism's nuke-bomb-seeking-ability, then THAT is the best security avenue for the US.
Very well said. It would seem that you have had an epiphany. There is so much emotion and passion in the discussion that facts are not allowed to carry any weight. The truth of the matter is that this country is no longer capable of making rational decisions. Everything has to be based on what sounds good.
The UN report that the bovine population of the planet contributes more to Global warming than man doesn’t get much ink. The fact that the polar ice caps on Mars doesn’t indicate that the sun output is on the increase. The simple fact that the actual output of the sun has been measured to have shown a slow but steady increase over the past 100 years or so is not allowed to confuse my emotions with fact.
What I like is when these oblivicons say “Yeah! Ethanol!”; they are forgetting that if we were to make all of our surplus farm output into ethanol, 1/3 of the world would suffer from near starvation. You can’t provide fuel and feed the world from the same crop at the same time.
Let’s put wind farms off the coast of Mass. Even though they would not be visible from land, Teddy Kennedy says NIMBY. So many locations we could put wind farms, but we may kill some little birds. The list of irrational choices based on emotion seem endless.
So; let us build refineries, let us drill for oil off shore, let us drill for oil on a total of less than 10 acres out of 200,000 acres of natural preserve, let us build many Nuclear power generators, let us do all of the choices so that we are not only energy independent, but not tied to a single technology for our way of life.
Enough of a rant. Thank you for listening. You said it well in far fewer words. I salute you.
Be well.