Nuclear power is the safest and cheapest power available and we politically restrict its use and we still do not have the lowest gas prices. It has been 30 years since the last nuclear plant was built and we still get 20 percent of our
power from domestic nuclear sources. Wind and solar account for .002 of our power needs and are very expensive and unreliable.
The line of cars that looked so funny it almost put them out of
business). And the new federal mandates about fuel economy
are going to hurt the economy by raising the cost of new cars
by thousands of dollars, limiting consumer choice and
reducing utility.
Federal mandates with respect to ethanol have created
havoc in the food market, driving up prices as much as 10
percent (in some cases certain foods are up over 30 percent)
and they are going higher, while creating a fuel that uses more energy
to make it than you get from it, and is very expensive, pushing energy
costs even higher. What the government is doing by driving
prices higher is akin to what the government did in causing
the economy to go into the Depression after Black Friday
in 1929, passing huge tariffs to keep domestic prices and
wages artificially high.
But international trade retaliated
with similar tariffs, so our balance of trade, which was positive,
went negative and our economy’s huge export market
dried up overnight helping cause a 1929 stock market correction
to become a Depression until World War II.
If the government would have stayed out of the marketplace
there may have only been a recession instead of the misery
that was created by government that lasted over a decade.
I digress.
There are two kinds of power requirements: stationary (electrical) and portable. With respect to stationary power the answer is simple, nuclear.
It is the safest and cheapest form of electrical power ever developed and in the United States.
Has been used for decades without one fatality or injury
from nuclear contamination. Not one. Nuclear power is the safest and cheapest power available and we politically
restrict its use. And still no lowest gas prices . It has been 30 years since the last nuclear plant was built and we still get 20 percent of our power from domestic nuclear sources. Wind and solar account for .002 of our power needs and
are very expensive and unreliable. And we still don’t have the lowest gas prices.
By increasing our nuclear power by 100 percent, it would
lower pollution (smog and particulate components) and
improve safety. It would allow the conversion of coal to diesel
fuel at about $50 a barrel, further extending our liquid petroleum
supplies. Nuclear power is inexpensive whether it be the
latest in light water reactors or the new pebble bed system that is still in the proving stages.
Nuclear power can be produced for less than 3 cents a kWh instead of the 10 to 35 cents an hour that we pay for natural gas and/or coal fired
power plants, both of which pollute. When it comes to transportation,
the most plentiful, densest and safest fuel source is petroleum.
But we struggle with political turmoil and suffer the whims of two-bit dictators, continuing political unrest from exporting countries supplying
money to terrorist regimes and Arab potentates when we do
not have to.
But no one, not even the president, is willing to tell this country the truth about our domestic oil supplies in Alaska, offshore or in the Gulf
of Mexico, an amount totaling potentially 300 billion barrels,
enough to last this country about half a century without
ever taking another drop from anywhere else — and that’s not
counting on the tens of trillions of barrels of coal to diesel,
shale oil or even the tar sands of Canada, which would add
another couple of centuries of supply. Why do we or our
political leaders hate themselves and us so much? We could have the lowest
gas prices.
If there is political unrest in Nigeria, who cares. If the
Arabs want to trade some of their oil for our plentiful food
supply, we can talk. In other words, oil becomes less of a
weapon or a tool for dictators to set policy. Let them eat it
while we eat steak, broccoli and potatoes. We want the lowest
gas prices.
Why should we worry about energy when we have it right here in the United
States, and plenty of it. That is how we become energy independent,
increase the supply. It’s that simple.
For those who want to continue
to believe in the religion of global warming, continue your beliefs but don’t let that stop progress for the United States. Stop driving your car
and ride a bike, get off the electrical grid and do your part.
I am sure many of us learned after this last series of storms
how much fun life is without electricity. (And those hugely
expensive solar panels workgreat during a rain storm).
But for the rest of us, we like the way we live and the freedoms
that are attached to that way of life. If you don’t like what you
pay for your energy at your home or for your car, call your
president, congressman or senator and tell them that you want American oil in Alaska, offshore and in the Gulf of
Mexico and we need nuclear energy (let’s build the first oil
platform off Hyannis Port).
And with the oil royalties it could solve the Social Security Trust Fund problem.
One more point:
We pay more for gasoline than either the Germans, English or French.
Their cost per gallon is about $2.74 before taxes while
the American consumer pays an average of about $2.85.
So work towards changing things if you want the lowest gas prices like opening up new areas for drilling, or Get Over It! Yeah, it really is that simple.
Its obvious you are not making the money to keep up with inflation and you are looking for something other than lowest gas prices.
Contact:
Mary Lapp
604-855-9204
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