Environmentalists Squander our Resources

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Are we wasting most of the gasoline that we use today in the United States?

Yes.

Is this waste caused when we drive to work, and when we use our cars for pleasure and fun.

No. We waste it because environmentalists have pushed us into making stupid decisions about energy.
Here is how:

Because of environmentalists’ irrational fear of nuclear power, the United States halted construction of nuclear plants 30 years ago. Yet this fear is completely unfounded; the number of people who have died in the last 50 years worldwide from accidents at nuclear power plants built to advanced American and European specifications is… zero.

But since environmentalists have spread a malicious fear of nuclear energy, we have stopped building nuclear plants. France and Japan today get 80% of their electricity from nuclear. Instead, the United States gets 20% and has has been building coal-fired and natural gas-fired plants instead.

America’s coal-burning power plants today consume 1.2 BILLION tons of coal annually. They make up 52% of our generating capacity.

Natural gas-fired plants consume more than 5 TRILLION cubic feet of natural gas per year, and generate 22% of our current electrical demand.

Their total combined energy production is roughly 770,000 megawatts.

All of this coal and natural gas is being consumed unnecessarily. If we used nuclear power instead, we could be generating this electricity thousands of times more efficiently than coal or natural gas can. And rational people have been arguing this point for decades.

Even major environmentalists have come over to the reasonable side of nuclear power. James Lovelock, the British founder of the enviro movement, is pro-nuclear. So is Patrick Moore, founder of Greenpeace, along with many others.

If all the plants that currently burn coal and natural gas had instead been built as nuclear power plants, we could have been, and could today be converting all that coal and natural gas into fuel for cars and trucks. Rough calculations show that the coal and natural gas we now burn in power plants every year could be converted into the equivalent of more than 3 billion barrels of gasoline or about 80% of the gasoline that we now burn annually. This could replace ALL of our oil imports because coal and natural gas are domestic American resources. This conversion would save our nation more than $600 billion a year in payments to foreign suppliers of crude oil. This would strengthen the dollar and would lower world energy prices dramatically by reducing by a whopping 10% world petroleum demand. And it would reduce air pollution by huge amounts every year.

This is not pie-in-the-sky environmentalist rhetoric about solar panels and windmills. This is pure mathematical calculation based on what we already consume.

See how these environmentalists have ruined our energy supply? See how much damage they are causing our economy? There is no need whatsoever to be paying these high gas prices. We are wasting vast amounts of resources and paying higher prices for one reason only — because of the policies that the environmental movement has forced on us.