Global Benefits from American Know-How

In a column in today's edition of the Deseret Morning News (Utah), the paper's editor, John Hughes, detailed how various nations around the world are addressing growing demand for energy. He concludes:

As experts weigh the world's growing overall energy needs against known resources, they are examining renewable alternatives to the non-renewable ones such as oil, gas and coal. These include wind and solar and hydro powers. There is even renewed interest in nuclear power for peaceful purposes. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will likely press for U.S. nuclear technology for India when he visits Bush next month. The conundrum is when to support nuclear development for peaceful purposes, as distinct from its use for nuclear weapons development in countries like North Korea and Iran.

Am I the only one that thinks it's a shame to have countries around the world in line to purchase American technology - but they're in line ahead of the U.S.?

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