With oil prices skyrocketing again, why aren’t we working on developing alternative energy sources?

Neither Bush nor Gore are even talking about our most practical and abundant energy resource: nuclear energy.

By using nuclear power, we could conserve our nonrenewable petroleum reserves and reduce petrochemical pollution in our environment. Nuclear energy is inexpensive, environmentally friendly and pollution-free.

Nuclear energy is perfectly suited for generating large blocks of electrical power, allowing petroleum to be used where it is ideally suited…for society’s transportation.

If we were to dismantle our nuclear bombs, scientists say their remains could be used as fuel in nuclear reactors. In fact, we currently have enough nuclear material to provide power to our nation for at least the next 500 years! So, why aren’t any of the politicians adopting the slogan, "Make power, not war?"

There are a lot of myths about nuclear energy. The news media continues to foment fear and mislead people into believing that there might yet be hundreds of thousands of deaths from the Chernobyl accident. In actuality, there never were thousands of deaths.

There weren’t even hundreds of deaths. There were only 31 deaths…and most of those involved workers who were handling nuclear materials or heroes located near the reactor core who cleaned up the aftermath of the failure. Furthermore, it wasn’t the nuclear reactor that failed. It was the boiler.

Granted, the Chernobyl power plant was probably the most poorly designed nuclear reactor in the world. In fact, technical problems ultimately forced Ukranian officials to shut down three of four nuclear reactors at the facility. But in the United States and throughout the world, all nuclear reactors are fully enclosed. And other than at Chernobyl, there has never been even a single death associated with nuclear power or reactors in the US or anywhere in the world.

So why the enormous cover-up? Why are the politicans strangely quiet about this?

Clearly the major media is in lock-step with the Republicrats in the conspiracy of silence. Apparently, it’s not politically correct for the United States to be completely independent from foreign oil. If we were, we wouldn’t need politicians to "rescue" us with backroom deals that pump hundreds of billions of dollars into nations that hate us and want us destroyed.

Won’t somebody do anything about this outrage?

(Research for this commentary was provided by A.B. Magnus, Thermodynamicist)

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