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Oil's well that ends well

One small point about nuclear energy:

Okay, I hate to take issue with my own peeps at National Review and elsewhere, but the latest issue of the magazine perpetuates a basic confusion about energy. The second item of “The Week” in the April 4 issue, discussing the hysteria about Japan's nuclear situation, has everything right until the last sentence, which reads: “The United States should continue to pursue nuclear power as an alternative to Qaddafi oil.”

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 We could double our nuclear plants overnight, and carpet the nation with windmills and solar panels if you prefer “green” power, and it would do virtually nothing to reduce our oil imports for a simple reason: we do not use oil to generate electricity.

And another reminder from the comments: Oil is a global commodity. Oil produced here is not "ours"; it belongs to the oil companies who buy the drilling rights, and it is sold wherever in the world the companies can get the best price. So "boosting U.S. oil production" to reduce our "dependence on foreign oil" is a fiction.

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