Posted on 02/01/2006 9:18:58 AM PST by JTN
The American Conservative Union
In the case of biofuels, the author may be right, but in the case of nuclear power, the utilities cannot do a thing without some form of government protection from frivolous lawsuits by the enviro-wackos, anti-nuke power crowd. The reason nuke plants are no longer built in this country is because it takes so long to get approval, then plow through court just to build the thing, then another round of lawsuits to put it into operation.
Seabrook Nuke plant had TWO plants in the process of being built, but it took them almost 10 years of stupidity in the courts before they could even get the first one on line, so they abandonded the second one. The containment building is there, but they never put in the machinery and hooked it up. Folks sure don't seem to be worried about living close to it, either. There are several high priced homes on the beach near the seawater inlet for the plant.
The time is right for utilities to start to build nuke plants again, and there have been a lot of enovations over the last 30 yrs to build them more safely and less expensively. They can also build smaller ones that serve a smaller population, so they don't need as much land as they used to need for a plant.
Wake up. She's writing on behalf of the administration's favorite think tank, tha American Enterprise Institute (rather than the American Conservative Union as I mistakenly said earlier). She's not writing for the Libertarian party.
I suspect we'll get some of both SOTUs. This president apparently thinks deficits are a fine thing.
As for the resemblance to Clinton, when it comes to Big Government: Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.
Yes, I'm sure that when you get past the AIDS money for Africa, ethanol subsidies, farm subsidies, increased education spending, the Medicare drug benefit, the Department of Homeland Security, the 2.5 trillion-dollar budgets, and the signing of EVERY spending measure that comes down the pike, you'll find that deep-down he's a small-government, libertarian kinda guy.
Yeah, kinda sounds like that RINO Ronald Reagan and his amnesty, negotiating with terrorist regimes (Iran), pulling up and withdrawing after Beirut terrorism, piling up record budget deficits,...
Ping....and Ping to me for later reading.
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