[Gay State Conservative]

With such huge stores of cheap natural gas available, there is absolutely no reason that Texas should operate this obsolete and expensive source of electricity generation.

We need to take advantage of *every* energy resource available to us...and that included nuclear and coal.Fukishima taught us that it *might* not be wise to place nuke plants in known earthquake zones...particularly those located in coastal areas.However,although I very seldom sing the praises of the Europeans they *do* get close to half their electricity from nuke plants and it seems to work well for them.

Oil....natural gas.....nuclear....coal....hydroelectric...we must use it *all*!

[uglybiker]

I very seldom sing the praises of the Europeans they *do* get close to half their electricity from nuke plants and it seems to work well for them.

So easy, even the French can do it!

[thackney]

More like a quarter.

Figure 2: EU 27 Electricity production by source, 2012

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