Asia is rising economically - and is thirsty for oil. The price pressures on oil and oil price shocks, due to Asia's economic rise, mean that all steps made now to reduce oil dependence will protect us from pain and volatility later.
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
Before Chernobyl or without Chernobyl the nuclear power was the safe thing.
For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.
These nuclear plants are more dangerous than people realize.
When an oil company executive tells American families that we don't need to be concerned with tar sands pipeline safety, it's not only misleading, it's insulting.
Instead of going to the ends of the Earth - and plumbing the depths of the oceans - to squeeze out every last drop of oil, we need, instead, to do everything we can to reduce the risks of offshore oil and gas production.
I think our dependence on foreign oil is a real problem, potential Achilles heel, and we have to do something about it.
In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power.
