So you go from limited to unreliable?

Respectfully,
The Squid

Uranium prices are double what they were a few years ago. Switching from oil to nuclear is not a great savings.

You must conserve energy and find a non-limited resource energy source, like solar or wind.

Like Nuclear? France has been running on something like 90% nuclear power for years.

Respectfully,
The Squid

Then we go into trading one finite fuel with pricing problems with another.

The other main problem you guys fail to notice is how the uncertain supply of energy is damaging the US economy. Compare how resilient our economy is going to be against that of the European union, particularly the key countries like France, Germany and England. These countires are already way ahead of the US in terms of alternative energy, mass transit and conservation. And that gap is increasing.

The best solution conservatives seem to be offering is short term at best. 20-30 years down the line we’ll have another crisis, while our economic rivals will laugh at us.

Simple, blend. They can limit production on the ones they have now even more. Instead of only 85% capacity, they can turn it down to 50% = Profit!

Did you read what I posted? Refiners turned down production on the ones they have now because they’re not making enough money. So exactly how is building more of them (that they don’t want) going to help?

A little more care before you start throwing around those numbers, there, midder.

In actuality

As of April 2008, the United States accumulated about 56,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel from nuclear reactors. … By the year 2035 this amount will increase to an estimated 119,000 metric tons.

At 20 tons/day you’d accumulate 56,000 tons in 2800 days, or 7.6 years. Pretty sure we’ve had nuclear power in this country before 2001. (Actually, nuclear power started in the US over 50 years ago (Shippingport) and the last plant to come online, Watts Bar 1, was in 1996. So we’ve been running at a pretty steady level for the last 12 years.)

Looking ahead, adding 63,000 tons in the next 27 years comes out to about only 6.4 tons/day.

And where are you going to get the uranium from? Granted, Uranium is off its recent record highs, but it is still nearly twice what it cost a few years ago. And uranium takes oil to mine, lots of it.

You don’t need to switch to a new limited natural resource for your energy needs. You need a limitless clean energy source. AND YOU NEED TO CONSERVE ENERGY.

Until these projects come online, we need more of our own oil and we need it yesterday. We need to build more refineries (which is the real problem).

Respectfully,
The Squid

Only part of me is jesting.

Nope. There’s not enough oil in all of the United States to tip the supply and demand curve. It just doesn’t exist.

Drilling won’t help now, only conservation will.

I’d go over the rest of your post point-by-point, but you’ve don’t nothing to show your are worth my time or respect.

Oh, and in your awesome post, does ANWR stand for “Arctic National Wildlife Refuge”? Just curious. Thanks again.

Who is it that has consistantly blocked domestic offshore drilling? (Democrats)

With help from a few noteworthy Republicans.

Oil and gas leasing has been prohibited on most of the outer continental shelf (OCS) since the 1980s. Congress has enacted OCS leasing moratoria for each of fiscal years 1982-2007 in the annual Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations bill (now the Interior and Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations bill),
allowing leasing only in the Gulf of Mexico (except near Florida) and parts of Alaska. President George H.W. Bush in 1990 issued a presidential directive ordering the Department of the Interior (DOI) not to conduct offshore leasing or preleasing activity in areas covered by the annual legislative moratoria until 2000. In 1998,
President Clinton extended the offshore leasing prohibition until 2012.

Well that was lame. The windfall profits tax didn’t create the gas lines. Price caps did. I haven’t heard that anyone–Mr. Obama included–is suggesting we should do that again. On the other hand, maybe you meant to suggest that Mr. Obama simply wants to bring the lines back.

I’m pretty sure you’re wrong on that one.

I suppose that’s the Democrats fault as well.

The oil equivalent of plowing under crops to drive up prices.