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How would nuclear power plants effect oil prices?


78 posted on 03/04/2011 12:44:36 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer (biblein90days.org))
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How would nuclear power plants effect oil prices?

Primarily by making electric powered cars viable. Oil burning electricity generating plants only produce about 2% of our electricity - no savings there. But if we were to add dozens of new nuclear power plants, we would have the excess supply of electricity needed to make millions of new electric vehicles viable to be used in large urban cities. This does not address the electrical delivery infrastructure, but just the announcement of a new era of nuclear power plant building would be enough for OPEC to see the writing on the wall. This is all in my opinion, of course. If you don't think EVs are viable, then my theory is bunk. I think a large excess of electrical generating capacity would directly point the way to viable EVs.

95 posted on 03/06/2011 12:48:17 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Don't confuse Obama's evil for incompetence.)
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