Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Environmental Extremism - Energy Policy

It was interesting to hear the President of the United States agree with the energy strategy I detailed back in December.

Of course, I don't agree with everything he said. Some items such as growing corn to create ethanol to replace oil doesn't make much sense since it takes more energy resources to grow the corn than corn provides. But most of it was pretty good.

The cornerstone of the strategy must be expansion of nuclear power. That scares a lot of Americans. But the dangers of nuclear power are a carryover from old-style Soviet reactors... that were never in America. Three Mile Island is the only reacter in the U.S. that created a danger and that type of reactor is not what the President is talking about.

Go back and read some of my posts about energy including November 7. The president is right, too.