We can appreciate John's McCain's choice of Houston to announce his offshore drilling plans, but going to Nevada to talk about his nuclear energy plan is like going to Cape Cod to promote offshore wind turbines.

Since it was first identified as a suitable repository for nuclear waste 25 years ago, Nevada's Yucca Mountain has become synonymous with the government's inability to adequately address the problem of used nuclear fuel. In those same 25 years, a little town about 90 miles south of Yucca has also become quite the tourist destination, not to mention a real city as well, and nowadays the only eerie glow people want to associate with Las Vegas is from the flashy strip.

But we digress. McCain's speech, as posted on his website, focuses on the need to extricate US energy from the hands of evil, Middle East producers who use our money to fund their own weapons program nuclear energy generation. His own nuclear program proposal -- 45 new reactors by 2030, with a long term goal of 100 new nuclear plants -- was just a fraction of the speech, likely due to the fact that, as McCain acknowledged, Nevadans don't like thinking about their state as a nuclear waste dump.

Most of the speech revolved around oil and the products that use it. He took a stab at the "failure of leadership" that prevented higher CAFE standards from being instituted sooner and promised tax incentives for the creation of zero-emission cars.

McCain dismissed any nay-sayers of his plan who might question whether he can accomplish all of his Lexington Project energy plan by reminding us of the Greatest Generation's, "industrial might that overcame Nazi Germany and imperial Japan."

There you have it: John McCain's plan for energy independence requires bombing the hell out of our adversaries.