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Gasp!

The enviro-weenies probably have their shorts in a knot over this.

Actually there is no responsible environmentalist who could have a problem with Nuke plants, it's only morons without a scrap of scientific understanding who go willy over the notion of nuclear power. Nuclear is a perfect environmentally sensative form of power generation, and I've never met anyone R or D who knew what they were talking about and opposed it, only paranoid weenies.

"We need to move our country toward a more reliable supply of low cost, American-produced energy, especially nuclear power, which produces 70 percent of all of the carbon-free energy produced in the United States today. Let me repeat that: Nuclear power, a technology we invented in the United States, produces 20 percent of our electricity, but produces 70 percent of all of the carbon-free energy we have in the United States today.
Coal gasification and carbon sequestration are such long words that it took me a long time to figure out what we were talking about. We are talking about taking coal--which we have a 400-year supply of in this country--turning it into gas, and then making electricity out of the gas.

For States such as Ohio, where the Presiding Officer is from, or Tennessee, where I am from, and where we struggle with air pollution problems, it gets rid of the sulfur air pollution problems and gets rid of nitrogen and mercury and just leaves carbon. If we can advance our research and development for carbon sequestration--that is, capturing that carbon and putting it in the ground--then we will have for ourselves and for the world a transformed way of producing electricity that will provide a low-cost, reliable supply of American-produced clean energy in the amounts we need. ." - Senator Alexander (R-TN), speaking on the Senate floor about the energy bill.

The Republicans are proving to show interest in the environment. If Democrats were really gung-ho about the environment like they are with the Kyoto treaty then they would sign off on this energy bill. However, it's just becoming more evident that they really don't care abut the environment but rather they care about their image to other countries. They are willing to force the power companies to pay fines to foreign countries for emitting carbon just so that Jaques Chirac will like them.

Nuclear power plants will provide energy free of carbon emission. The Kyoto treaty will provide free welfare checks to third world countries. Which one makes sense to you? Dick Durbin mentioned manufacturing electric engines that run on batteries for idle diesel trucks. Where does the electricity come from Dick Durbin? It comes mostly from coal producing power plants that emit carbon into the atmosphere. What about Kyoto Dick?

enviro-weenies probably have their shorts in a knot

They do. They complain about problems of radioactive waste storage. The problem comes down to signage.

Can we use enviro-weenies as an alternate source of fuel?