I’m a big fan of nuclear. In fact, I think that if I were appointed dictator I could have America importing zero oil in 5 years, largely by switching most electricity production to nuclear, allowing domestically produced liquid fuels to be used for transportation.
However, the demand for “Sherman for dictator!” has not exactly been overwhelming.
That mostly what they are used for today. Less than 2% of our electricity is generated by petroleum. Much of what is used is petroleum coke and residual oil. Those are left over products from Crude Oil after products like diesel and gasoline are removed.
U.S. Electric Power Industry Net Generation, 2006 
