Frank: Skeptical of a Green Obama

I'm not a fan of Obama's energy plan. Besides my own personal doubts about global warming, there's a crucial aspect of his energy plan with which I've always had an issue. He won't invest in nuclear power. He'll invest in wind and solar power, which is nice, but our energy consumption already dwarfs what we can produce from those resources. His plan wants to make 10% of our energy consumption come from renewable resources by 2012. Anything projected for beyond 2016 is pixie dust, Obama can't legally run the country after then so his policies have no guarantee of being enforced. Even at its best, only a quarter of our energy consumption would be from renewable resources. Why not invest in a stronger energy source with more potential for growth? Because Obama is opposed to nuclear energy. Conveniently, it's not the most popular thing to support these days. So that's my take on Obama's energy plan, I think it's misguided at best. So, I guess technically I oppose his energy plan because the economy is more important.