c Anderson on Alexander News Network (ANN): Trump's War 2.0 for America

[c Anderson]

I think you are a bit pie in the sky about nuclear energy. It will be years before Americans willingly accept that nuclear reactors are safe. You seem to have forgotten the accident at Three Mile Island. We have several states who have moratoriums on nuclear power. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-nuclear-moratorium The problem with your explanation is that we were energy independent during the Trump administration. We were actually exporting oil. To take currency from other countries who purchase oil from us will make the sale of oil more risky and thus less lucrative. It will also make the dollar less attractive for overall trade. The rest of the world runs on oil as the leftists running the US abandon it. This will be inflationary as there are thousands of common household products made from oil. You can call it withdrawal pain, I call it savaging poor families!

[Eleftherios Gkioulekas]

Of course, this is going to get very bad in the short term and possibly medium term. My point is that there was a price we paid for riding on that system for 50 years. It is a funny system: China gives us antibiotics (for example), we give them the Saudi's oil.

[c Anderson]

And you really believe the EPA and all the state regulators are going to be responsive to our energy needs with all the windmill and solar crap too? China is forging ahead with coal powered plants and here we are tearing down hydro electric dams for salmon. The stability of our economy depends entirely on reliable and cheap energy, yet your argument is we need to go build a lot of new expensive nuclear power plants which take years to build. It is kind of like progressive Dems banning gasoline powered cars before we have electric charging stations available.