Agree that USA is not generous as uncle Sam always see their profit first. But lets also evaluate what is our nations best interest also.
Following is bread down of electric power generation statistics using various energy resources from Energy Information Administration (Official Energy Statistics by US Government) per month as of July 10, 2008: - Coal 50.7% - Nuclear 19.7% (way above 10-15%) - Natural Gas 19.2% - Hydro Conventional 6.2% - Other Energy Sources 3.1% - Petroleum 1.2%
Of this, in last 50 years (from inception of Nuclear technology) a good chunk of the power production investment has been made to nuclear reactors via which currently USA is generating about 20% of energy from nuclear power plant. Most of the other power generation unit from other sources had been build based on thermal, hydro or petro energy sources were prior to nuclear technology.
Also it is in past 3 to 4 years hydrocarbon fuel prices have started sky rocketing, thanks to uncle Sam for this. Seeing this US Congress last year passed bill to build 8 more reactors for power production.
Below is list of countries currently building new nuclear power plants for power generation (source wikipedia): Brazil, Argentina, China, Russia, Ukraine, France, Iran and South Korea. Canada, Australia, Indonesia, UAE, Oman, Qatar, Turkey, and Libya are considering building new nuclear power plants (for some it will be first).
Regarding oil consumption, following are countries which consume oil in order
