Say "yes" to nuclear power

5 Myths About Breaking Our Foreign Oil Habit, posted Jan. 13 on "A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days," talks about the important issues and possible problems that will face our nation. The blog asks why no presidential candidates will make remarks concerning these issues considering their large importance. In saying how important it is to address the issues faced by our country concerning foreign oil, the blogger came up with two points that he wanted to make, one of which I whole heartedly agree with, but the other I'm not so sure about. First, he says that America needs to build more nuclear power plants to address power shortages. Second, he says that to keep everyday products like foods at reasonable prices, we should invest in ethanol. I find myself more skeptical of the latter of these two points because I don't feel that ethanol will be a useful, long-lasting solution to raising oil prices. I have reached this conclusion because ethanol still takes lots of power and oil to make. Because of this, I see solutions such as ethanol and hybrid cars as non-practical solutions because they don't actually fix the problems, but only delay the inevitable. The problem is, though, that I have no idea or solution that can do any better than these ideas, so I am in no real position to attack these ideas to answer oil problems. But, concerning the first point the blogger made, I think that more nuclear plants are a must; building more nuclear plants is something that America should already have done years ago. I am a strong believer of this because, despite the way many environmentalist make them sound horrible, nuclear power plants are by far the cleanest and most efficient form of power. Although the US was the first nation to harness nuclear power, European countries have far surpassed the number of nuclear plants in America because they seem to see the obvious practicality and use of it. The problem is that there have been incidents or scares, such as Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, that have given the public a scare and they have made people more willing to believe environmentalists against nuclear power plants after hearing about these things. In short, I'm not sure of how to solve our oil and power problems completely in America, but building more nuclear power plants would be a long overdue step in the right direction.