Besides helping our environment, here's the MAIN reason I'd like to see us switch to nuclear: to shut the mouth of these OPEC guys who have a resource they threaten us with. Can you imagine if we weren't buying oil from them? They'd be hurting BIG TIME as it's the ONLY resource for countries like Venezuela and Saudia Arabia:
$100 oil has OPEC gushing
At summit, Chávez
threatens $200 crude if U.S. invades Iran
11:53 PM CST on Saturday, November 17, 2007
By JIM LANDERS / The Dallas Morning News
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – OPEC's 13 member nations opened a summit Saturday night with a
sumptuous celebration of $100-a-barrel oil and a warning from Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez that the price could double if the United States attacks Iran.
"If the United States is crazy enough to invade Iran or makes an aggression against Venezuela again, the price of oil will not be $100 but maybe $200," Mr. Chávez told his fellow oil-exporting leaders, gathered in a magnificent palace.
Iran's defiance of U.N. demands to halt its nuclear program has many in this part of the world worried that the Bush administration may launch a military strike aimed at crippling what appears to the West to be an effort by Tehran to develop nuclear weapons.
Mr. Chávez accused the United States of trying to break up OPEC in the 1980s and 1990s and said the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, an OPEC member, was part of an American campaign to dominate global oil supplies."
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