Obama wants to Drill baby drill...

[skeptic]

But this clearly upsets the baby Jesus.

Obama’s Nuclear-Power Plans Set Back by Japanese Quake Aftermath

March 14 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s frustrated efforts to revamp U.S. energy policy may face another setback as Japan works to prevent a meltdown at nuclear-power reactors crippled by last week’s earthquake and tsunami.

Obama’s cap-and-trade measure to control carbon emissions failed in the Senate last year, his endorsement of expanded offshore drilling was set aside after the BP Plc oil spill in April and his support for more natural-gas production draws objections from environmentalists who say the techniques being used risk tainting drinking-water supplies.

Now, the president’s call for the government to back a new generation of nuclear power plants as part of his “clean- energy” agenda may be challenged as Japan struggles to control damaged reactors. Obama has called on Congress to approve $54 billion in U.S. loan guarantees for nuclear energy, a threefold increase.

“The question is whether this event in Japan makes it more difficult to get support for additional subsidies in Congress,” Tom Cochran, a nuclear physicist and a member of the Energy Department’s Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee, said today in an interview. “I think it will.”

Workers battled to prevent a nuclear meltdown after a second blast rocked a plant north of Tokyo following an 8.9- magnitude earthquake and tsunami on March 11. The cooling system failed at Fukushima Dai-Ichi station’s No. 1 and No. 3 reactors after the earthquake, and it stopped working today at the No. 2 reactor. Fuel rods in the reactors may have melted when water levels fell, according to Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano.

Obama’s Nuclear-Power Plans Set Back by Japanese Quake Aftermath - Businessweek

Will Americans let politics and fear prevent us from assembling what is actually a last ditch attempt at adopting an energy policy?

Or will we just ignore our energy addiction and stumble blindly into the future without a plan?

So often the only barrier to sane Americans acting in a sane manner is the lack of political will to tackle tough choices, like the budget deficit and taxation.

Are we becoming FUBAR? Is our leadership FUBAR?

Personally I think the answer to all of these questions is "Duh!".