A Constitutionalist Speaks Out
By John F. McManus
Published: 2007-03-06 15:51
TNA: What can we do about our dependence on foreign suppliers — including those in the Middle East — for vital supplies of oil?
Rep. Paul: Just deregulate. We have plenty of oil in the ground in Alaska and in off-shore locales. We should go after it, but federal regulations prohibiting oil companies from doing so keep us dependent on others. Think also what a full-fledged nuclear power operation would do to relieve hydrocarbon needs. We could create a lot of electricity with nuclear power and, who knows, it might be an advantage to have half our automobiles plugged in every night. But even building nuclear power plants faces obstacles.
Yet, even some of the "greenies" are coming around. I was talking to a member who is very sympathetic to the environmentalists, and he's beginning to think that nuclear power isn't such a bad idea after all, and that even when you have nuclear waste, it is so small in volume that it doesn't have to be disposed of in one central location. There's a nuclear power plant in my district, and I've seen the stored waste that they're keeping until there's a national waste disposal site. I've seen the pit where the waste is kept and it's not very large. No one should get hysterical about disposing of nuclear waste.
Alas, Ron Paul doesn't want to ask the question of whether we can continue down this path.
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