Fox News Poll: Despite Shock at Crisis in Japan, Half in U.S. Call Nuclear Energy Safe

Let's take a couple of things into consideration, first, the Japanese are using 1970's technology that has been safe and reliable until now. Second, the Country of Japan was

hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake.

There isn't much built on this planet that can survive that much abuse. Japan has known since there has been a Japan that they live on a fault line, therefore they build things to withstand earthquakes. But building to survive a 9.0 quake is more than can be asked of engineers or materials.

Nuclear power is clean, efficient and after the initial investment, reasonably priced. France gets about 70% of their electrical power from nuclear energy.

obama doesn't want us to have gasoline, he refuses to allow oil companies to do their job and drill, no matter what he and his talking suits say. They are a bunch of liars, their actions speak far more loudly than their words. He doesn't want to mine coal. And contrary to what obama has stated recently, he doesn't seem to be behind nuclear power either.

We can't base the future of our nuclear power on the disaster in Japan. The earthquake and tsunami were the perfect storm.

If we are ever to be free of the scumbags who currently provide us with oil, we have to help ourselves. We can sit around and talk about green this and renewable that, but until reliable technology is available at reasonable prices, we are kind of stuck with what we have.

I don't know about you, but my budget will not be able to sustain these fuel prices for long...

From FoxNews

Americans are shocked by the devastation in Japan after a massive earthquake and tsunami spawned a nuclear crisis, but about half of American voters still say they think nuclear power is a safe source of energy, according to a Fox News poll released Thursday.

In the aftermath of Friday’s earthquake and tsunami, 49 percent of voters say the destruction is worse than they expected to ever see in an industrialized country. That includes 32 percent who say it is much worse and 17 percent who say somewhat worse.

Another 49 percent are not surprised by the scope of the devastation.

Japanese officials estimate the death toll from the earthquake and tsunami at more than 5,300. In addition, dangerous levels of radiation leaking from a damaged nuclear power plant have prompted the Japanese government to ask about 140,000 people living in that region to stay indoors.

The poll was conducted Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, as Japan worked to contain further damage from the nuclear plant, and conditions at the plant steadily deteriorated over that period.

Go read the rest and see the full poll results at the link above...

Obama Faces Bipartisan Criticism on Energy Policies

It must be getting close to election time if democrats are openly disagreeing with obama on energy policy. democrats don't give a damn about the price of gas or what it costs to heat our homes. They care about the next election.

obama has declared war on all things energy, coal, oil, nuclear, to fit his agenda. He has a lot riding on the green energy bullshit. He has made lots of investments in green technology to help him maintain the whitehouse lifestyle after we boot his ass out of office.

He doesn't care that thousands of jobs are tied to those anti-energy policies. He doesn't care that those of us paying close to four dollars a gallon for gas are going to suffer greatly because of it.

While the turmoil in the middle east has caused prices to skyrocket, if we were utilizing the resources we have available here, we wouldn't be as affected by events overseas.

Playing politics with the lives of average citizens is wrong but that is exactly what obama and his gang of thugs are doing...

By Jim Angle - FoxNews

With energy prices rising in part because of turmoil in the Middle East, lawmakers from both parties are questioning the Obama administration's energy policies and arguing more should be done to develop domestic sources of energy.

"I don't think the president's position on oil and gas is as strong as it should be,” said Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, where the oil industry plays a large role in the local economy. “Oil and gas is an important industry in the United States today and it will be in the next decades.”

Many in the administration emphasize alternative forms of energy and some, including the president, have openly talked of the need for higher prices on oil and coal to make alternatives such as wind and solar more price-competitive.

Landrieu and most other lawmakers embrace an "all of the above" strategy, saying all forms of energy should be developed. But both Republicans and Democrats note that it will be decades before the need for oil is significantly reduced, so why not produce more of it? The U.S. use 20 million barrels a day but produces only seven million.

After the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf last April, the administration imposed a moratorium on new permits. That was lifted in October, but until this week, no permits had been issued for deepwater drilling.

“I think what should be unmistakably clear is that the policy that we have in this administration is to support oil and gas drilling, both in the shallow waters as well as in the deep waters, and we just want to make sure that it's done right and in an environmentally safe way,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a Senate Natural Resources Committee hearing this week.

The Interior Department granted a single deepwater permit on Monday, saying before it could continue issuing permits, it had to certify that new wells have containment capacity in the case of another blowout. Though he would not lay out a timeline, Salazar told senators that the department will move forward with permits for deepwater drilling. He also offered reassurances about future petroleum exploration and production.

"In terms of the Gulf of Mexico production, we continue to have a robust production, as we did this last year and we expect to continue to have a robust production in 2011 as well,” Salazar said.

But Sen. Landrieu noted that before the blowout, the government's own experts said production in the Gulf of Mexico this year would be 1.77 million barrels a day. Now that projection has dropped to 1.39 million.

In 2012, the government originally projected production of 1.82 million barrels a day, but now sees a decline to 1.14 million barrels a day.

That is a drop of 680,000 barrels a day, which equals about half of the global exports from Libya. Unrest in Libya has led to concerns over a disruption in that country’s exports, creating fears that are driving oil prices higher.

At the same time, some Republican senators charge the Environmental Protection Agency is out to kill the coal industry.

More than half the nation's electricity comes from coal, and Senate Minority Leader McConnell, R-Ky., accuses the EPA of sitting on mine applications, noting 79 are now in bureaucratic limbo.

"The EPA has turned the permitting process into a back-door means of shutting down coal mines by sitting on permits indefinitely, thus removing any regulatory certainty," he said.

So McConnell, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and others introduced a bill to force the EPA to use or lose its veto over mine applications within 60 days.