Making her first visit to India as secretary of state, Clinton will strive to deepen ties that were strengthened by the U.S. Congress giving final approval last year to a pact that opens the Indian market to U.S. nuclear power companies.

U.S. officials hope India will use her trip to announce two sites where U.S. firms would have the exclusive right to build nuclear power plants, a business opportunity that Blake estimated could be worth up to $10 billion for U.S. companies.

The two major U.S. nuclear reactor builders are General Electric Co and Westinghouse Electric Co, a subsidiary of Toshiba Corp.

And what is Barack Obama and the Democrats plan for energy independence here at home? Oh yeah, cap ‘n trade, and building plenty of windfarms and solar panels.