using nuclear energy ??? or nuclear components...  I doubt it.  It never ceases to amaze me that folks just cannot get their heads around the energy - petroleum problem.

Plastics - are for the most part - Created, synthesized or a derivative of PETROLEUM.  and whether or not YOUR energy comes from a Nuc plant - the point is - the energy goes onto the general "Grid" and that has energy from many sources... hydroelectric to coal to whatever is used at a specific generating plant...

Farmers use mules... in a very inefficient way....  see my link  Dude....  I live less that 50 miles from some of the most productive farms in the world... and they really don't use petroleum products....  

Our modern civilization is largely base upon a complex matrix of interdependencies... and to say that you don't use petroleum products demonstrates to me just how little understanding you have of the true problem....   The problem is - we've finite resources and as each individual's needs for resources increase it places an increasing burden on the rest of society's requirement for those finite resouces...  Solution?  A general reduction in the population.  

Sorry, but that is the only real solution - and it must be worldwide....  not just the US.  

What do you think is gonna happen when everyone in China drives a car?  or every home in India has central Air?????  

and that day - is coming.