Gas Prices

[Punish_her]

You could also reduce prices by allowing drilling of oil in those areas which are currently off limits. (A temporary fix, to be sure, but fairly quick, too.) Problem is, that might inconvenience some caribou or polar bears or something. You could also start building many more nuclear reactors, then give people tax incentives to switch their home heating systems over to electric, saving plenty of oil. But, "radiation! Bad, bad, bad!"

no doubt in my mind that nuclear is a far more efficient way to go

[leo9]

no doubt in my mind that nuclear is a far more efficient way to go

Much doubt in many people's minds. There is a reason why no private company wants to build nuclear power stations any more, and it's not political: they've realised that the government won't shoulder all the real costs by disposing of the wastes, compensating the victims of planning blight, and cleaning up after accidents.

Japan is seriously considering not restarting any of the reactors they shut down after the earthquake, because they've discovered the hard way how much harm those things can do. And this is a country that has no fossil fuels to mention and bet most of its energy policy on nuclear; doing without it would cost them dear. That's how scared they are now.