The bigger problem is the enviros, who would kill every coal and nuke plant you want built. FACE IT. Then help deal with it.
I did already, but all the brave volunteers ran away an hid when the pushing and shoving got too nerve wracking for 'em! Taking a principled stand on a consistent basis was just too embarrassing for the Country Club, checked pants Repellicans who really never understood why they were supposed to be for limiting the power of government anyway... oh well...
I swear, they'll never understand what a power struggle the people that love the traditional American culture are in! It's hideous!!!
They say in one breath they can't understand why they can't control their own property or business, then in the next breath, they say they really appreciate what government central planning does for them and that they cannot trust their local government to handle something that important to them.
They go through life with no personal mission statement, or written personal strategy and then freak-out at the inadequacy of the government program that is all that is left to take care of their neglect and dependence on government.
Independence Day seems to me to be a good time for everyone to reconsider what it will mean to our futures as individuals if we just rely on happenstance and the political whims of shallow politicians to secure our futures.