SHOOT: Shoot supports the view that although nuclear is not ideal, it is tested and well understood, and is the cleanest of the viable alternatives. It may be very late to invest in this very expensive (in terms of overheads) but it certainly would make more sense than deploying more money down, say, the GM drain.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. should build 100 more nuclear plants rather than spend "billions in subsidies" for renewable energy if it is truly committed to lowering electric bills and having clean air, the Republicans say.
In the party's weekly radio and Internet address, Sen. Lamar Alexander said the United States should follow the example of France, which promoted nuclear power decades ago. Today, nuclear plants provide 80 percent of France's electricity, and the country has one of the lowest electric rates and carbon emissions in Europe, he said. _Start with conservation and efficiency. "We have so much electricity at night, for example we could electrify half our cars and trucks and plug them in while we sleep without building one new power plant."
"There is a potentially a dangerous energy gap between the renewable electricity we want and the reliable electricity we must have," he said.
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