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Sure, there is plenty of blame to be distributed among Presidents, members of Congress, other decision makers, etc...no question about that. It is fair to say that they all failed to greater or lesser degrees.

It is also fair to blame those who are labelled as tree-huggers or eco-nuts, or other names.

1. The extreme over reaction of the above community toward nuclear energy power plants bent the course of history in a large way toward where we find ourselves today.

2. The environmental groups bear a large, one might say huge, responsibility for fighting, hindering, delaying, and stopping the development of American reserves in off-shore sites, shale, and the artic. There is no question that in that 30 year period referenced, sufficient reserves could have been brought into production that we would not need to have this conversation.

3. There IS the nimby attitude everywhere. The sea breezes near Nantucket are ideal for a wind farm. Which most influential Senators have killed any such development there...surely not wildly liberal, Bush-bashing, ones named Kennedy and Kerry???? No one wants nuclear plants near them..even though some other countries safely use them to supply most of their power.

There is plenty of blame to go around..including a complacent electorate that did not insist that leaders plan for a future situation such as we now have........and especially curses on those who fought, delayed, and denied, viable solutions in the name of environmentalism.