[Catphish]

Then maybe we’ll learn a lesson and either drill here or starting relying on nuclear power once and for all . . . .

[silverleaf]

Harry Reid's re-election almost guaranteed that nuclear power expansion is a no-go

He and his mafia casino backers (worried about tourism yeah) are determined to prevent use of the nuc waste storage site at Yucca Mtn, which is basically sitting there ready to go and empty

Without a national plan or depository for nuke waste, and with the anti-nuke crowd and enviros having killed off the fuel reprocessing option, nuc plants cannot be built and start operations, current sites cannot,expand or even power up beyond reduced operations most are now running

[aces]

Yep..

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Then maybe we’ll learn a lesson and either drill here or starting relying on nuclear power once and for all . . . ."

I agree, but that option isn't open while the current clown is in office. Even if we started now, we'd still need a lot of exported oil for the next 5-10 years. So we'd still need that part of the world to be stable.