[NYorkerInHouston]

Nuclear is used for electrical generation almost exclusively. Oil only amounts to 3% of electrical generation with the vast majority of oil being used in the transportation sector. Eliminating oil consumption for electrical production will help but only slightly. Oil consumption in transportation could only be replaced by nuclear in a few ways that I can think of:

- Put nuclear reactors in vehicles: Not practical

- Use nuclear reactors to split hydrogen from water and
use that to power vehicles

- Run more transportation directly off the grid-
electrified rail or battery based transportation
(either completely or in a hybrid form)

[kempo]

"Oil only amounts to 3% of electrical generation" that may be true but the amount of oil used for heating oil in the north east of the country is huge. This country has not been allow to build any new refineries for the past 30 years because of the democrat party. In late summer the refineries has to gear up to produce heating oil thus backing off producing gasoline which make gasoline scarce. This keeps the price of gas high. If the Arabs sent us more oil we would not have the capacity to produce more usable petroleum products.We need more refineries and more nuclear plants for electrical generation soon.