Anti-nuclear rallies fill French cities

AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/17/07 | AP

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Future business as a destination for amateur astronomers seeking dark skies.

[Tribune7]

Police estimated the crowd at 10,000.

That's not a lot of people. Sort of the the equivilant of a late season, weeknight baseball game when your team is 20 games out and the opponent is also 20 games out.

And people are paying for the baseball game.

[Gritty]

What? No mention of Iranian nucs!!

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Got it. You were supposed to send a freepmail--that way all of the "votes" could be kept in one place.

Appreciated anyway--will make a freepmail vote for you.

So far, two are for a smaller version (including your vote), and one is for keeping it the way it is.

[Mount Athos]

The goal should be to minimize the amount of vertical scroll required to get past it. So a wide one is ok but tall is bad.

[RightWhale]

"get out of the nuclear business" and "invest in renewable energies like solar energy or wind power,"

They will quickly run out of enough electricity to light their salon gatherings, right after they run out of money to build anything anymore.

[Ieatfrijoles]

The rally was underwritten by a grant from OPEC and perhaps the Chubb group.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Something to take into consideration, then. Appreciated.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Maybe if we just explain it to him he'll see the error of his ways... lol

[JHBowden]

The millions of anti-science, anti-technology, anti-capitalist moonbats that infest Western countries will not stop until the entire earth looks like rural Bangladesh.

[chimera]

Nothing like cutting your own throat. They get 80% of their electricity from nuclear. They've spent decades building the infrastructure to not only be self-sufficient in electricity generation, but an exporter of electricity to surrounding nations. And they want to throw that away? Sounds like killing the goose that laid the golden egg to have a turkey dinner (or maybe a dinner for turkeys).

I seem to recall that when Mitterrand first campaigner he was mildly on board the anti-nuclear bandwagon. Within a year of taking office he was firmly back in the pro-nuclear camp. I think the trade unions had something to do with that. Socialist that he was, he knew what side of his bread was buttered.

[Longinus]

Not to defend the French nation per say but ""Tens of thousands of people"" combined (from several cities no less) is not that many.

The French as a nation have a better attitude about nuclear power than we do - and a pretty good safety and cleanliness record on top of that.

I wonder how many of these Luddites were imports from Germany, Spain and England as well - professional leftist protesters.