On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:42:58 -0400, BAR wrote:


France didn't build each nuke plant from scratch like we did. They
weren't trying to provide a jobs program for engineers.

Careful, someone may call you a socialist. :-) France works differently
than we do. After the 1973 oil crisis, Prime Minister instituted a huge
nuclear build program, without public or parliamentary debate. That
wouldn't work here.

If you recall, our response to the oil crisis was Carter's "moral
equivalent of war" speech. Nixon, Ford, Carter, Bush I, Clinton, all
have tried to address the energy problem. Maybe in another 30 to 40
years we'll actually do something.