Electrical generating plants are constructed in the country by private companies. Why aren't they asking to build more nuclear plants? One reason is that nuclear plants cost too much to operate compared with oil and coal-fired plants. Apparently one reason the French plants can operate is that they are able to sell surplus off-peak power to other European customers. We don't have similar power-hungry neighbors with equivalent populations.
2. Immediately begin safe and ecologically sensitive drilling of the MASSIVE U.S. OIL SHALE DEPOSITS (Bakken Formation and others) and our off-shore coastal regions.
You can't drill for oil in oil shale deposits. No one has found an efficient, large-scale way to extract oil from oil shale (which in fact does not even contain oil). The Bakken formation is not oil shale.
3. Immediately ease the permitting of NEW REFINERIES HERE (ecologically sensitive, of course.)
According to recent statements by T. Boone Pickens (who should know), we do not have a refinery shortage because current refineries are only operating at about 83% capacity.
And YOUR solution to these problems are??
Please feel free to list as many as you wish.
>According to recent statements by T. Boone Pickens (who should know), we do not have a refinery shortage because current refineries are only operating at about 83% capacity.<
When a refinery goes down for annual maintenance, why does gasoline immediately jump 4 cents nationwide?