[AdamSelene235]

But the public has been brainwashed on this issue for twenty years. It would be an enormous fight to change the perception, because the liberal press would be certain to see it as an opportunity to kill the conservative movement.

They don't like fission but they want cheap energy.

They don't like oil but they'll use it despite their beliefs.

They don't like our involvement in the Middle East but they have sabotaged all alternatives.

[NilesJo]

But the public has been brainwashed on this issue for twenty years. It would be an enormous fight to change the perception, because the liberal press would be certain to see it as an opportunity to kill the conservative movement. They don't like fission but they want cheap energy. They don't like oil but they'll use it despite their beliefs. They don't like our involvement in the Middle East but they have sabotaged all alternatives.

Nuclear energy has proven to be safer, far cleaner and cheaper than fossil fuels. It holds out the promise of strategic energy independence. It is the single developed source today that can solve our eventual energy crisis within a reasonable time frame.

So, if the Liberals and Greens still oppose nuclear energy, they are operating from an agenda that is not focused on a real solution to these real problems but rather one that is anti-capitalism, anti-corporation and anti-free market. They understand that an energy crisis has the potential to create an economic and political crisis in this country. This in turn will undermine the public confidence and produce political instability - the opening that the socialists hope for in order that a desperate citizenry might embrace their anti-capitalist alternative.