It is no great surprise that America has a 10% unemployment rate and a $12 trillion dollar and rapidly growing national debt when you consider that each year about $500 billion a year of hard earned taxpayer dollars leaves our nation for foreign countries (many run by hostile governments) because we have no effective energy policy. We continue to be the only nation in the world that refuses to fully use our own resources, including nuclear energy to provide its own energy.

I believe that we should be immediately investing in nuclear energy instead of watching France, Sweden, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Korea and other nations greatly utilize this clean energy while our Congress
continues to refuse to build any nuclear facilities for the last 30 years.

While I do believe that renewable energy such as solar and wind should be pursued aggressively, it is misleading to suggest that this energy, which constitutes 7% of our energy source right now, can become the entire solution over the next 20 or 30 years. A comprehensive approach utilizing all of our energy sources is clearly needed as the transition to cleaner, cheaper sources of energy takes place.