McCain agrees with AutoRacing1

A reader writes, Dear AutoRacing1.com, I read with interest your article back in May on more use of Nuclear Power Plants and electric energy to power our cars of the future and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and foreign oil. Does Presidential candidate John McCain read AutoRacing1.com? Today I read the following:

Sen. John McCain called Wednesday for the construction of 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030 and pledged $2 billion a year in federal funds “to make clean coal a reality," measures designed to reduce dependence on foreign oil.

In a second straight day of campaigning devoted to the energy issue, the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting also said the only time Democratic rival Barack Obama voted for a tax cut was for a “break for the oil companies."

McCain said the 104 nuclear reactors currently operating around the country produce about 20 percent of the nation’s annual electricity needs.

“Every year, these reactors alone spare the atmosphere from the equivalent of nearly all auto emissions in America. Yet for all these benefits, we have not broken ground on a single nuclear plant in over thirty years," he said. “And our manufacturing base to even construct these plants is almost gone."

Even so, he said he would set the country on a course to build 45 new ones by 2030, with a longer-term goal of adding another 55 in the future for a total of 100 new reactors.

“We will need to recover all the knowledge and skills that have been lost over three stagnant decades in a highly technical field," he conceded.

Bravo John McCain and bravo AutoRacing1.com! Nuclear power is here, it's now and we know it works. Let's do more of it ASAP, recognizing that it won't completely reduce our demand on fossil fuels, but it certainly will go a long way. Every American should vote for John McCain for this suggestion alone. Ken Reynolds, New York