John:
Actually, I’m not real worried about Chavez. The poor peasants who are keeping him in office will do him in once the money runs out. By “nationalizing” Citgo he stole all their assets, and spread it around the country so the peasants thought he was some kind of saviour. If we Americans would just drive on by his Citgo stations, that would hasten his demise.
We need to go nuclear for our power. Right now, about 20% of our electrical power is from nuclear generators. France is about 70%. The Chinese are going nuclear with a modern reactor design which is runaway-proof. We invented the design, but have yet to use it. Even the Japanese are going nuclear, as is India. The rest of the world has “done the numbers”, but our politicians have discovered nuclear is a good football to use to keep us stirred up, off-balance, and divided. As long as we stupidly fall for their crap, we will stay on that slippery slope.