Nuclear (breeder) power plants and electric transportation is the most sensible solution. People whine about Uranium also being fossil, but there's enough to fuel many times our current consumption for thousands of years, that's not even including thorium.

Nuclear waste is an issue easily dealt with. Breeder plants need a lot less uranium and produce a lot less waste, they can even 'burn' up most of the waste produced until now. Sure there will always be some waste, but it pales in comparison to the fly ash ponds produced by coal burning, which are also slightly radioactive but not secured.

I'm not saying we shouldn't use solar and wind but it will take much too long, use up a lot of resources, and cost a bunch (especially reconfiguring the power grid and making energy storage solutions). Nuclear baseload with solar/wind dealing with peak power.

A gas explosion recently killed 9 people in America, nuclear doesn't have a single confirmed death in the US.
Coal is much, much worse.

Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste

By burning away all the pesky carbon and other impurities, coal power plants produce heaps of radiation

In fact, the fly ash emitted by a power plant—a by-product from burning coal for electricity—carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.



Remember this fly ash accident, imagine how much radioactivity was dumped over the country then:

Fly ash flood covers acres
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/dec/23/fly-ash-flood-covers-acres/

Workers face "several weeks' worth of work" to clean up 3.1 million cubic feet of fly ash dumped across hundreds of acres after a retention pond collapsed early Monday morning at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston steam plant.



More:

Bush administration hid coal ash dumps' true cancer threat
http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/05/bush-administration-hid-coal-ash-dumps-true-cancer-threat.html
The Bush administration was reluctant to release information that suggested an alarmingly high cancer risk for people who live near landfills and lagoons used to store coal ash waste -- and now it turns out that it released only part of the data, hiding for years the full extent of the health threat from poorly regulated coal ash disposal.



More
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fly_ash

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