Well, actually this has been cross-posted multiple times today, and it turns out that Jerôme already wrote a diary on this a year ago in DKos, but the URL is in yet another story, the nuclear renaissance one: DKos diary here.

As Jerôme said, the long term impacts deserve a long discussion (like possibly I imagine: binding tightly the costs of oil and gas - slowing the rise of oil and accelerating that of gas, changing notably the application mix of gas - and increasing consumption, thus depleting gas faster than anticipated - and making (dieselized-)gas a more global market than it presently is, with expensive barriers between continents).

Pierre