MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • March 20, 2022
The war in Europe proves that the United States of America and the European Union, under multiple administrations and different parties, have for decades neglected what should be the primary policy goal of every major power on Earth: true and total energy independence. A large part of the reason that Europe and the United States have failed to free themselves from this dependency on foreign oil is that nuclear power has, for years, been demonized by environmental activists the world over. We need to accept that in order to achieve energy sovereignty, we’ll have to include a mix of oil, nuclear power and clean energy.~ Jim Fossel