Penn & Teller, lesbians, hybrid cars, and nukes.

I love Penn & Teller, especially their 'Bullshit!' show on Showtime. They take modern issues and expose them for the bullshit that they are. Granted, it's a bit biased against whatever issue is brought up, but they do better than, say, Michael Moore in showing both sides of an issue.

One of my favorite episodes, next to Prostitution, Boy Scouts, and Life Coaching, is one of season five's episodes called Energy Crisis. It talks about how we wouldn't have an energy crisis if we would embrace nuclear power, and I definitely agree. People are scared of nuclear power because of nuclear bombs, which have nothing to do with nuclear power, and because of incidents like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. However, as Penn & Teller point out, no American was affected negatively, besides being scared, by Three Mile Island. Chernobyl, while a terrible accident, has ways of being prevented now.

We have new ways to get rid of nuclear waste, and nuclear power is more cost-effective and safer than most forms of power. Modernly designed nuclear power plants would be exponentially safer than the nuclear power plants we have running now, which were built in the 1970s or before. The US hasn't built a new one since then, but we have plans for power plants that would be more safe than we could imagine; fact is, we're just too scared to do it.

Another thing I loved about this episode was the bashing of the Prius, and hybrid cars in general. The car weighs more from having two engines, its mileage is no better than a lot of straight gas cars, and the batteries have even more problems. The gas you end up saving by having half electric power is negated by the bullshit that happens with the batteries.

The best part was the lesbians they had on a date to test the Prius, though. Hot.