This country needs to use Thorium energy.
Clean, safe, very inexpensive, and about as abundant as anything else.
Not against hydrocarbons, but the 0bama’s and Cuomo’s and DeBlasio’s of the world won’t be able to politicize it like coal and oil.
The residue of dead dinosaurs steaming out of the ground keeps my house warm and spiltting atoms keeps the lights on, but the sooner America wises-up and invests in distributed generation including wind and solar where appropriate (i.e. in high wind and solar resource areas) and in distributed thorium power plants that can be safely located underground near points of major consumption (e.g. cities) the sooner we can wean ourselves away from the traditional and what will ultimately be more expensive forms of energy. Every source of energy on this planet has a common origin: the Sun. When it’s used to create biomass that takes millions of hears to gassify or turned directly into electrical energy in a solar panel or through the heat generated by nuclear reactions, the choice of “solar power” is non-negotiable. We just need to use the more efficient forms of it.
And why is that? PS this is a trap. You have been fed a line of bull by someone. There is no advantage that Thorium has over Uranium. The cost of nuclear safety is largely invariant, and the fact that capital and operating costs sharply disadvantage nuclear right now is an economic fact.