An Inconvenient Truth

[Lissa]

You are aware, I hope, that there are a lot of Muslims in Africa, to include in Nigeria.

The US is not the only market for oil. We add to global demand, which has an impact on global prices. Everyone who buys oil from the PG feeds the Islamist coffers.

Where is China going to get their oil? India? Japan? The Rest of the World, whose demand will grow?

The spot market responds to global demand, not just US demand, even if that shrinks modestly.

Occhi

AFAIK, China is being smart and building more Nukes. Last I heard, there were actually setting up a city that would use the waste heat from cooling the electrical power side loop to heat homes and business with no detrimental effects (since the coolant loop for the electrical power loop would have a very low possiblity of radioactives getting into it).

Now if we could only convince the US public that Nuclear power is safe, we could get back to building them. The next thing to do as well would be to convince the world to have the IAEA handle reprossessing of spent fuel to recycle the still usable fuel (about 95% of the actual volume removed from the reactor) so that we can adequately deal with the true waste (about 1% of the material by volume in fuel is not usable at all, the 4% that is not usable as fuel can be used by various industries for various purposes, most going to medicinal uses). Place the reprocessing facility on some neutral ground and have everyone in the world ship their spent fuel there (which there are extrememly safe methods of transport, http://www.uic.com.au/graphics/flaskload1.gif (Seaborne) and http://www.nuclearfaq.ca/cask.htm (Truckborne or Railborne used in US and Canada, note the survivability of the cask in the shots).