Solving The U.S. Oil Dependency

Here is an interesting email conversation I intitiated with ‘Ask an Expert’ at the EIA. I wanted to get an independent confirmation of some calculations I did regarding replacing imported oil utilizing Nuclear Energy to generate electricity to power electric hybrid vehicles.

The question posed was: “If we were to replace the energy equivalent of 10 million barrels per day of imported oil, how many kilowatts of electrical generation capacity would be required? This is really hypothetical, but an interesting question. For example, a statement could be made that if we added N number of 1Gwatt power stations running some fuel (coal, nuclear) we would need X of these plants to offset our imports of oil (assuming we had a way to power cars, etc, using just electricity).”
Here is the response:

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