but, you wouldn't want to put all those uranium miners out of work would ya....

[Guest guest]

Claims that nuclear energy can reduce oil use are largely hokum

 

President Bush hearts nuclear -- or in the argot of the day, nucular -- claiming

that a boost in nuclear energy could reduce oil imports and help America reach

the Shangri-la of " energy independence. " But people who, um, know stuff about

nuclear energy are highly skeptical. There are some ways that nuclear could make

a small dent in oil use -- " indirectly, but very indirectly, " says Lawrence

Goldstein of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation. Thing is, nuclear is

primarily used to generate electricity, and that's not what we're using most oil

for. Fewer than 600,000 of the roughly 20.5 million barrels of oil the U.S. uses

every day go to generating electricity, and replacing that amount wouldn't make

much of a dent in imports. Nuclear might free up some of the natural gas now

used to produce electricity, but other uses for natural gas are highly

underdeveloped. Nuclear could also help make heavy oil into more usable light

oil, but that application is speculative at best and extremely expensive. Or we

could conserve energy ... but what fun is that?

 

 

straight to the source: The New York Times, Matthew L. Wald, 09 May 2005

 

 

And Bugs Bunny is a friend of mine

Eating him I'd feel like Frankenstein

Eating flesh seems pretty foul to me