Teresa - you're obviously misinformed about nuclear energy. The vast majority of nuclear waste can become inert, and the remaining long half-life stuff is a small price to pay for super-cheap energy.

Also, you've been watching too many movies if you think a terrorist could somehow get their hands on nuclear material at nuclear power plant in the US and weaponize it. Equally unlikely is the possibility that terrorists could successfully launch a brute-force attack on a nuclear plant in order to cause a meltdown. See http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf06.html

McCain's the only one with a short-term, medium-term, and long-term plan to solve this energy crisis.

we have the tec. since the 1960s to use spent nuke rods---enough to power country for 1000 years do the research

nuclear is sure dangerous---
HOWEVER THERE IS NO RECORD OF ANYONE DYING FROM POWER PLANT--INCLUDING THREE MILE ISLAND---JUST BIG OIL CRAP.

Joey

the saudis know we have that resource if we want...

yes they want to be the main supplier...but us opening our resources because gas is 4 bucks (as opposed to the rest of the world) when some smaller countries have already tapped out and we haven't seen the use thatis being projected if we continue 10-20 years on this path...with the rest of the world gaining exponentially on what we are sucking down.

do you get that?

that oil is a resource... the oil companies want to own as much as they can to have their choices...

the drilling will not bring speculation down...the markets know if we really wanted it we can get that oil.

and someday we may have to...but what happens if we almost tap out in 30 years and we have not done enough to ge t us off...

what happens to generators and planes who do not have the technology to change in 30 years... 20 years from now it may be a different story...but if our threshold is 4$ and we are slapping our collective arms screaming for more oil... then we are in big trouble.

If we don't take care of this now...we are not talking a speculative 100 years from now...we are talking about a finite resource that there is no way to grasp what this new global village is going to do to that resource... and a world that can only make so much progress ...

but we do know that we have only been using oil for a hundred years and look what we have already done to the worlds supply?

so yeah...Obama is telling the junkies... no no no to that street needle... we need to start getting offoil and out of the influence and power of ever wealthier dealer.

what happens then...

Why do you think this is such a "BIG" deal for the oil companies to get there hands on this offshore land? So they can get there hands on it before Bush leaves office. They have land, but more control is king, and the consumer concern isn't a factor here.
It's more than Charles Black, there are other advisor's who are probably in charge of this new plan involved here that people need to investage. They want to controll all energy sources provided to the American people, and we are going to fund every project, without oil companies record profits required.

ggg1ggg...you say that nuclear power is "super-cheap energy".

Care to provide some facts to back up that statement? The fact is, nuclear energy is anything but "cheap".

It may be the only way to go...but telling Americans they'll be paying less for it is just lying to them. Let's just be honest...things are changing. The chicken's are finally coming home to roost.

Life is going to get a lot better in China and India...and a lot more expensive for Americans. The party's over.

America needs energy on a massive scale. I am for what will work now, not pie in the sky. Our economy runs on oil and electricity. That’s the fact right now. Nobody is going care one bit about the environment if our economy tanks and they lose their job and gas is six bucks a gallon. We must be energy independent at all costs. If the middle east explodes and we are still dependant we are doomed. Oil, coal, gas and electricity are what we need right now and I am all for any domestic clean cheaper alternative as soon as we can make them happen but we can’t make best the enemy of perfect.

WANT TO SEE WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR COUNTRY
MAN USING OLD VEGI OIL TO POWER CAR----MUST PAY 1000 DOLLARS FOR SPECIAL FUEL PERMIT----PAY 28 CENTS A GALLON TAX----AND IF CAUGHT ON HIGHWAY 3000 FINE FOR USING UNAPPROVED MOTOR FUEL-----WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH OUR COUNTRY.

rodney are you an idiot

chernobyl

now do the odds...add up all the nuclear power plants in the world and see what the odds are for a major accident...
are you comfortable with...oh...
1 in a thousand?

1 in 2000

get a freakin clue...

they are safe depending on your perspective of safe...

oh that's right no one dies huh?

dumb.

I think we should do nuclear.. but here is a guy with no plan for disposal and he is saying 55 plants in 20 years.

and none of the logisitics are worked out.

that is another gimmick.

HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE DIED FROM NUKE POWER PLANT----STOP TALKING WITHOUT FACTS YOUR OPINION MEANS NOTHING

how is drilling offshore a short term solution, when it takes at least 10 years to get the equipment up and running. i don't know about anyone else but i am hurting right now and in 10 years who know where i or the rest of Americans will be. Suffering for the hopes that out of this offshore well, there is oil. i pray to God there is oil in there...then.
Short term solution to our problem, i dont think there is one, and saying that offshore drill is, isn't true.
oil dependence isn't going to cut it, alternative need to be in place, and a bipartisan agreement needs to be met for any solution to be obtainable.

4$ a gallon is not the line where we say give me a fix from our private resources...

4$ a gallon is when we get real about the fact that this is a resource that WILL run out.

our stash in mother earth's safe is already open a crack...we are using that...

if you are all so worried about NOW...then why are you not askign the oil companies why they aren't drilling where they own already (the places that they have been holding out...but now that GW is leaving their opportunities are shrinking to scare the public into another Iraq fiasco)

there is oil in the regions that they have already been given... and if yuo say otherwise...yuo aren't stating the truth.

this is a 9/11 so Iraq thing...

and Charlie Black has a waft of Exxon Mobil on his platform.

rodney...you say no one has died from a nuclear power plant.

Ever heard of "Chernobyl"?

Total deaths (short and long term) from that will end up at about 10,000.

TRIPLE what happened on 9/11.

Nuclear power may be inevietable. But let's be HONEST about it. The American people deserve to know EXACTLY how expensive it will be...in money, lives, and health. And there's a VERY HIGH PRICE to pay in all of the above. Maybe it's worth it. Maybe not.

sell me a vehicle that gets 50 plus gph run on alternate fuel--keep money in our country--AND I WOULD PAY 10.00 PER GALLON AND IT WOULD STILL BE CHEAPER--DO THE MATH.see if you have the guts to put an end to the arabs and big oil.

rodney

how many people's lives were destroyed from chernobyl?

sorry but you r an idiot

the odds of an accident...

how many plants in the world...how many years have they been around...how many accidents?

you got chernobyl right off the bat.

so stop...this is not some highway he is planning to build.

wilder
speculation is not fact-----we have far greater tec. than you can imagine.

di
0 deaths plus 0 is still 0

check on russian tec at present time---chernoble would rate as antique---three mile island and no deaths------also ever hear of nuclear medicine.

They might have these nuclear plants in Mexico! So, what are we worried about.
Energy for pennies!
Then this cleaner, healthier solution to this energy crisis will shift the jobs to produce such energy in Mexico!
I'm just saying, since my job is going there in 2010! Check out OHIO!
some of McCain's top advisors agree that jobs should be exported since America has a high tax rate for businesses!

the issue is John McCain either tries to seel some simple solution that really isn't simple and in some cases makes things worse...

or he is trying to spin an idea that no doubt came through Charlie Black disguised as a help to consumers and the market when really it is an idea from the oil companies as to how to solve the problem...

the battery idea was a great one...but like obama saisd...when JFK wanted to go to the money...he didn't put out a bounty for it... he had America itself dive right in...

this is our "race to the moon" who can invent and start the industry that is the alternative to oil.

Just like the race to the moon...there were people studying it and attempting but until the US govt. got involved in a serious endeavor only then did we make it happen.

we need nuclear...but it needs to be safe and planned...not freaking promising 55 nuclear power plants in 20 years like some housing development.

ugh.