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We're not going to get to an "EV-society" until we start taking nuclear energy seriously again.

Instead of playing slap-fight with the Saudis and Russians, I'd love for America to say that it'll continue to support its domestic petroleum industry as a legacy stopgap until we're up and running fully with atomic power, but make the moves we'll need to make the nuclear industry as large as the petroleum industry is now, and drive policy not through weak-ass fist-bumps, but through controlling and reducing American (and Western hemisphere) demand for the goop that gives the Saudis and Russians their power in the first place.

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Oct 14, 2022·edited Oct 14, 2022Liked by Chris J. Karr

The issue with Musk isn't just that he's floating giving the Russians something they do not deserve to have, but using Kremlin talking points like "Khrushchev's mistake" re: Crimea, or the "handing over" of Taiwan to China.

RE: Khashoggi: do we expect POTUS (of any party) to ignore US citizens being murdered by other country's governments (and this includes Shireen Abu Akleh)?

Have you looked at the US oil field production rates before writing this? You can see them at https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=M. Note that, while we are still working our way back up to pre-COVID pumping levels, we are still near all-time highs of oil production: your perception doesn't match reality.

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