[bybybill]

Wonder how much gas costs in California?

[goldstategop]

Liberals think energy grows on trees. sarcasm>

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[RightWhale]

They are truly out of touch. The crunch could come at any time and they guarantee they won't be ready.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Does NAFTA allow us to drive trucks full of nuclear waste down in to Mexico and drop them off? Seems like fair trade to me.

[bnelson44]

Yea, just keep sucking electricity from Palo Verdes Nuclear plant in AZ.

[Publius6961]

The 198-page report puts California at odds with the Bush administration, which has advocated nuclear power development in the face of rising gas prices and as a way to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil.

These imbeciles have been on the wrong side of the issue long before Bush became the hate target of every nut case in the US.
They are an appointed body. It is time for change. I believe the pulse of California, in spite of its high percentage of Bugs and Bunny types would have a majority in favor of energy independence ASAP.

Everyone seems to have forgotten why doofus Davis was recalled...

[kellynla]

while Americans have been sitting on their collective hands, France is generating SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT of all their electricity with nuclear power today!

personally, I like the combo nuclear desalination/hydrogen/electrical generating plants
like these:
http://www.aaenvironment.com/nuhydro.htm

[TheBattman]

I guess this is what you get when the monkeys run the zoo....

I hope California citizens enjoy their electric rates...

[SouthTexas]

"The disposal of waste is an extraordinarily important threshold question

Why, because they are so full of it?

[RussP]

The whole issue of nuclear waste disposal is nothing but a myth. A great whopper. In reality, waste disposal is a tremendous *advantage* of nuclear power. It produces about one-millionth as much waste as coal power. Oh, and it is less radioactive overall too, by the way. It's well past time for the ridiculous myth of nuclear waste disposal to die.

http://RussP.us/nucpower.htm

[Myrddin]

Electric generation utilities in others states should simply tell California to get screwed when they want to purchase additional power from out of state facilities. The prima donnas in California want the power, but they aren't willing to build any facilities inside California. Those fancy electric, hybrid and hydrogen vehicles are going to make extra demands on the existing capacity. There is no reason to screw other states to feed these idiots.

[concerned about politics]

In its first comprehensive look at nuclear power in nearly 30 years, the California Energy Commission recommended Friday that the state continue its moratorium on construction of nuclear plants.

Of course. They just leech power off all the other states. You pay to build it, you pay to maintain it, and they'll nurse off it. They're liberals!

[Enchante]

No nuclear power, no offshore drilling, boutique fuels, excessive regulations, etc. etc. The only wonder is that CA doesn't collapse in ruins.

A modest proposal: give CA less access to energy from anywhere else in the USA until they come to their senses and begin to produce all the energy they can produce.

These are typical socialist parasites who whine, whine, whine if prices go up but they strangle the free market and block all efforts to increase the supplies of energy.

[Tench_Coxe]

"In its first comprehensive look at nuclear power in nearly 30 years, the California Energy Commission recommended Friday that the state continue its moratorium on construction of nuclear plants."

In ten years, CA is gonna look like North Korea on one of those 'Earth At Night' maps.

[Smokin' Joe]

In its first comprehensive look at nuclear power in nearly 30 years, the California Energy Commission recommended Friday that the state continue its moratorium on construction of nuclear plants.

In another thread today, the moonbats were out in force protesting a proposed LNG tanker docking facility 13 miles off Monterey.

The offshore drilling moratorium continues.

etc., etc., etc. Why dontcha just rename the place NIMBYLAND?

[backhoe]

I have been covering, ( Or, as Seamole calls it...-backhoe's pseudoblog--... ) pseudo-blogging, this issue for years, so allow me to drop out of Lurk & Link mode for a rare bit of commentary-- we all need to get serious about our dependency on foreign sources of energy, and use our own resources.

Our consumer-based economy is driven by and dependent upon readily-available, reliable energy-- choke that off, and we'll all be back to using one rotary dial phone in the dining room, watching one TV in the living room, and driving one car per family-- probably a Hudson Hornet or a Nash Metropolitan...

We need to

1) end the nonsensical ban on offshore drilling off California and Florida--read & weep:
Castro Plans to Drill 45 Miles from US Shores, But We Can't

2) build a lot of next-generation nuclear power plants, not just for electricity, but for any process requiring heat, power, or steam.
And if we replaced our existing nuclear plants with this one there would be significant benefits.

3) end Jimmy Carter's idiotic ban on recycling nuclear waste, and reprocess the stuff rather than fighting over where to bury it. Europe has done this for decades.-- what to do with spent nuclear fuel? Answer here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1468321/posts?page=50#50 hattip:  Mike (former Navy Nuclear Engineer)

4) use the 300-500 years worth of coal we have on our own land, using the new clean-coal technology.
-Clean Coal Centre--

5) and finally, there's nothing wrong with conservation, we should all practice it- but you can't conserve your way out of a shortage. Nor is there anything wrong with "alternative" energy sources- except they don't supply the vast ( not to mention readily-available ) amounts of power we need at a price competitive to more conventional sources. Then again, there is this to ponder:
Energy From the Gulf Stream
http://www.energy.gatech.edu/presentations/mhoover.pdf

We do need to get serious about this before we get strangled by a bunch of petty thieves and dictators who don't like us much.

My tongue-in-cheek collection of energy-related links:

Sticker Shock-$3 a gallon gas? Click the picture:

And kindly note, and note well-- the first reply to this post ( when gas was $1.45 a gallon ) was derisive... so, who's laughing now?