“But people always say “You can look for those to become terrorist targets”. I just never understand that kind of thinking.”
Agreed. Amazingly enough, America once built the Hoover Dam (and it didn’t take a generation). We don’t do that anymore.
(Thorium fueled) nuclear power plants COULD produce all the electricity needed for al the world’s cities while ALSO producing hundreds of millions of gallons of desalinated sea water PLUS tons of salt for use AND keep thousands of acres of greenhouse space producing food ,flowers,or medicinal plants.Hot water from these plants could heat much of a city as was once done when the first power plants were located close to their customers. Cincinnati had a power plant on its riverfront;so they could have used waste heat to warm most of the commercial district.
The unbridled power allowed the EPA and the ability of crazed enviromentalists to sue has cost untold trillions of $$$ and resulted in lower standards of living for millions.
Of course the OPEC people have to wonder at the willing suicide of the West.Not that they don’t quietly celebrate OPEC’s accumulation of wealth and power.
Their is NO good reason the United States should be dependent on any nation much less those hostile to our freedom.