Industrialized nations realize it is the cleanest, safest of all sources of energy with unlimited capacity to produce electricity, with no air pollution virtually no air pollution, and only a small amount of waste that we can easily store in the Nevada desert. Oh, no, President Clinton and Vice President Gore vetoed the ability for us to store that waste in the Nevada desert, therefore, helping shut down our nuclear energy. We have not brought on a nuclear plant in over 20 years in this country. We are denying ourselves that capacity to produce energy. There are huge reserves of natural gas in the Rocky Mountain areas.
Natural gas is the cleanest burning of all our fossil fuels.
All our electric-generating plants today are natural gas plants. We are hitting a crisis in the production of natural gas. They refuse to allow those federal lands in the Rocky Mountain areas, almost all of it owned by the federal government, to produce natural gas, which isn't a dangerous fuel to produce. It is safe to produce. Certainly we could do that.