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Future. then the energy -- the safe energy resource are at our fingerprints. we need to tap them. for example, by improving efficiency over the course of the next 20 years or so, we could free up as much electricity as generated in 100 nuclear power plants in this country. and then just look at the vast safe energy resources that exist in this country. we have offshore wind potential off of the coast of virginia. there's enough wind that blows across the great plains to power the entire united states. and the sun is constantly shining on vast portions of arizona and nevada. >> do we have the b...

The entire united states. and the sun is constantly shining on vast portions of arizona -- >> do we have the base load capacity to do that? can we load up that capacity? can we get the wind and hold. >> it's >> no. >> stoirt. that's our problem. let me go back to -- i understand your advocacy. let me go to ann. looking at this objectively, is there any way to see an alternative down in the near term to nuclear in this country? >> there's no immediate alternative, chris. especially if we're going to transition to a clean energy economy. look, we do have great wind resources and we have great so...

That to the table. not artificially raise the prices to make it more difficult to created jobs, get jobs back. >> you know a lot of states that depend on coal and certainly west virginia would be one of those are very suspicious when it comes to any proposaling on cap and trade legislation whereby companies can trade what they save on their emissions and trade them with other -- companies or sell them. that kind of thing. what's your stand on instituting that kind of cap and trade legislation? >> we want to fix the problem. we want to fix the problem. we can use coal much cleaner than what we ...