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If this is some argument we shouldn't have nuclear fission to generate electricity I'm not seeing it.

And what energy do you propose we use to make these hydrocarbons? See, we could generate electricity with fission so we could just use the hydrocarbons we have on tap instead of burning them AND if we need more make more. Seems like the better economic and environmental solution all the while...

They shouldn't, but there have to be better uses for long-chain hydrocarbons than burning them as the first use for everything.

If you are growing something for fuel it needs to grow with minimal assistance (don't use chemical fertilizers) and minimal harvesting/processing as energy consumed making fertilizers, running hervesters, heating a distillery, ect... is set against the energy you get from the biofuel. Biofuel...

I like the idea of fusion, I hope we can make it happen for power generation in my lifetime, but the issue I have with it is that people have a habit of making better the enemy of good and fusion is the better to nuclear's good, sucking away attention, funding, and the undermining real impetus...