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To: Road Walker who wrote (374637)	3/20/2008 5:08:21 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575758

John, Are you saying that we would all be driving electric cars if we had built 100 nuke plants in the last 30 years? Nukes are cheap to operate (fuel is very cheap), so a lot of nukes would lead to low electricity prices. Since electric cars are a tough nut to crack due to technology learning curve, we would probably not be driving electric cars yet in 2008. But we would not be importing oil from mid-East to heat our houses, hot water etc. Less demand for oil = cheaper oil. As far as transportation, they have trolleys, street cars in some places in the world. Electricity can replace some oil consumption even with limited technology advancement. More research in needed on battery, fuel cell and hydrogen storage to make possible for nukes to fuel passenger cars. BTW, is this electric car a straw man? Why not stick to the original argument, which was: *Emotional and wacky environmentalist thinking have given us $100 gas, excessive greenhouse gasses and mercury poisoned tuna.* Joe