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"We should also accept that the terrorists have finally caught on to just how fragile the world’s oil supply is. The global economy is recovering. India and China are becoming voracious energy importers. The United States will neither tap all of its own ample reserves nor embark on a new round of fuel-efficiency standards. Global speculators and investors are hypersensitive to even the slightest disruption in supply."

As I keep saying, we need a "Manhattan Project" for energy independence based on crash construction of nuclear power plants [short-circuit the 'intervenors', lawsuits, environmental impact reports, etc...] and accelerated exploitation of methane clathrates together with drilling ANWR and other (so far forbidden) offshore resources.

We could be free of the Arabs in 10 years--or less. The President needs to get Congress to pass enabling legislation or do it by Presidential order; whichever will stand the howls of indignation from the eco-leftists and their fellow travellers...

--Boris

We toured Seabrook Nuclear Power plant last year with our kids. I never knew it, but they had actually built TWO containment buildings, but only ended up bringing one facility on line because of the expense and time required to open the first one. They were delayed four years and it cost them millions in legal fees because the enviro-wackos kept them tied up with lawsuits. I asked the tour guide if they would ever open the second one, and he said only if the political climate changed drastically.

Well, I think the time is perfect for the President to open the discussion about nuke plants. We are way too dependent on foreign oil, and if we don't have to burn oil to create electricity, that could be used for making gasoline, and it will reduce what we need from overseas. With the war going on and the possibility of terrorism disrupting oil supplies and sending the price soaring, I think most people would be open to the nukes idea, and dismiss the squealings of the enviro-wackos. There have been many innovations in the design and construction of nuke plants all over the world. We don't have to build big huge plants; we could do smaller ones that would handle large cities, then go with a regional type facility for a bunch of smaller towns. It just take some vision and some guts, which our President has in great supply!