[randog]

If that project was possible in the 1930's (inexhaustible pollution free energy) imagine what we can do 2day!

That's the problem--projects like Hoover Dam are nearly impossible to initiate these days. You've got environmental red tape (and environazis), NIMBY-ism, etc. Heck, we can't even build new oil refineries to meet demand.

[mission9]

So you are not going to take any positive action, like writing your congressman, because the environmentalists might object?

[Bean Counter]

"That's the problem--projects like Hoover Dam are nearly impossible to initiate these days."

We have seveal groups out West here that actively lobby to have all of the hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and Snake River watersheds removed or breached.

Now.

It's not only impossible to build a Hoover Dam today, it's getting dammed difficult to hold onto the one we already have...