Obama and Energy Policy

Hillary Clinton is supposedly "agnostic" regarding building more nuclear (fission) power plants, whereas Barack Obama supports building them.

Someone should tell Barack (and any other presidential candidates who support nuclear power) to look at nuclear fusion. If we would subsidize nuclear power (building nuclear fission plants and doing drastically more R&D on fusion, such as the Bussard Reactor) we would arrive sooner at the happy day when we no longer need to import oil. (Cheap and abundant electricity would lead to more electric vehicles, which means less dependence on oil, and generating electricity from nuclear fuel also means less dependence on oil, natural gas, and coal.) As a bonus, nuclear power does not produce greenhouse gas emissions, so this makes it attractive to the growing cadre of global warming alarmists.

It is very odd that as I write this, not a single candidate is talking about fusion power, when we are in a state of war because of our past stupid failure to more fully embrace nuclear power.