James,

Again, I'm with you on this. I know I've been a bit NIMBY about having nuclear in my backyard, but the more I think about it the more I believe in it, and would welcome it.

Here in California we have abundant sunshine. It would be nice if we could encourage the use of solar on homes, and businesses, through tax credits or some other program. There's no reason, especially in the San Joaquin Valley where I live, that new homes shouldn't have a certain percentage of their power provided via solar. It's one of the easy things we can do to make things better.

We need to start small. Your list of options is great, and they're things we know we can do today to easily offset our growing power needs. We won't use less, but if we do some of these things we can use fewer natural resources.

It's a start.