I am quite familiar with that chart.
Which of the lines from Petroleum do you think your are going to replace? We have already ruled out 71% of the choices. Do you think you can use nuclear to replace the one feeding industry for petrochemical feedstock?
The point is we could reduce our overall energy consumption from petroleum if we want to make ourselves overall less dependent on petroleum. So 36% could go down to say 25%, just as an example. IF the issue is being more energy independent, there are multiple strategies we could use to do that, including upping our percentage of overall energy from nuclear ... but only if that is our goal.
It seems not to be our goal.
It’s interconnected.
Nuclear created electricity can displace some petroleum for transportation, but I agree with you, not a lot at this point. That could change depending on the cost to obtain petroleum. Mostly it would probably affect demand.
We are talking present levels of supply and demand.
If petroleum or other sources of energy go down or become too expensive to obtain then we will have to make up the differece (or do without). The other way of looking at it, if an overall greater percentage of energy is captured by other means, then there is that much more petroleum to be used for things it is best suited.