During a speech to the Nuclear Energy Institute [3], U.S. Commerce Secretary Donald Evans [4] predicted: "The public will be more receptive" to new nuclear power plants "as we move into a period of higher energy bills." NEI quoted Evans [5] as saying nuclear energy has "a big role to play in the expansion of freedom." "How are we going to lift up the economies around the world... without affordable, available, environmentally preferred and sound energy supplies? Nuclear power has just got to play a critical role," Evans claimed. In an interview, Evans said the Bush administration supported both "free trade" and "fair trade." The Times-Picayune reports [6]: "When asked to elaborate... Evans said the administration basically holds free-trade principles but uses fair-trade tactics when the situation and the political realities call for it."