The Nuclear deal is not the panacea for our growing energy needs as even by 2030 it can gratify only 5% of our total energy needs. The government has done nothing to harness India"s abundant renewable energy sources. When Pranab Mukerjee indulges in the sophistry of pointing out the nuclear energy assets of France we are not told the almost 100 fold increase in infrastructure it would entail; he also fails to take into account the criticism of the deal by top scientists who warn the government whether we want this mythical extra "energy security " through this deal , paying almost thrice the unit capital cost of conventional power plants , with the additional burden of subjugating the freedom to pursue a foreign policy and indigenous nuclear R&D programme of our own. [11] The internal inconsistency of the government is highlighted by the fact that it aims to tackle the provisions of the draconian Hyde by framing a separate law. Doesn"t the PM, the congress and India"s vain intellegensia realize that just like American laws don"t apply to us, similarly India"s law cannot apply, forget counteract American laws. The fact of the matter remains the 123 agreement is bound by the Hyde act and only the American government can amend the agreement to make it immune to the provisions of the Hyde act. The BJP planned to pressurize the Americans into amending the 123 agreement suitably similar to their agreements with China and Japan, but the emasculated CIA appeasing UPA government has n
