Posted on 06/10/2004 6:43:00 AM PDT by toddst
They need to change "soot" to "radiation", keep the rest of the report the same, and watch how people freak out.
Close them all down, let the people live in the dark - or would that cause even more deaths?
More proof that the loons would prefer the human race to revert to cave man days. First the fight any nuclear plant construction and then they complain about the current technology. Just like gas prices, they can't live with their own policies.
What the report lacks in mention of a direct link, proof that these individuals died from soot from the power plants and nothing else.
It is all the fault of President Bush. Doncha know?
Overblown by the environmentalists, IMO.
Actually, I'm not a prophet or a seer. I just do good science and apply logic and reason, which is something beyond the abilities of most environmental whackos.
I was expecting some report about how a load of soot had been accidentally dumped on someone at least. There are a lot of horses in Kentucky too, may be that's the cause of death.
since the article and this study is drawing correlations, I thought I would too
This reminds me of the lawsuit from North Carolina against the Midwest for sending smog to his state.
I read an article in the WSJ, last week, that said Clean Air Act is supposed to be the next campaign issue that the Democrats are going to hit Bush with, just like arsenic in the water.
But critics said the study -- completed by Abt Associates, Inc., the company that analyzes air pollution strategies for the Bush Administration and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- unfairly focused on power plants,.....
Yep, and this article is one of the opening salvos. "George W. is compromising our health" will be their drum-beat. What garbage.
Oh, well then, let's not build anymore of those. People are just going to have to stop using electricity.
What did they say about refineries?
Don't get me started on this subject. Limited refining capacity is the primary cause of price and supply problems in the U.S. Crude has little to do with price increases. Thank you very much Bill Clintoon and friends!
If the oil industry had some incentive (tax breaks) to increase their refining capacity AND less regulation from the anti-oil EPA pukes, our gasolene prices would drop like a stone.
Nuclear is the way to go.
Yes, but it is so easy to counter this. You simply say, Of course we must continue to make power plants cleaner. But that does not mean we have to turn out the lights. The Democrats want to shut down the power plants. Their only solution for the disruption, for you being without power, is that you will have to adjust your lifestyle.
But we can have clean power and abundant power so long as we use our technology and take a well reasoned instead of a fanatical approach to energy and environmental issues in America.
As an additional note: We could make far more progress in air quality if we focused for a bit on the air blowing into the U.S. from other countries. Our power plants are 99% of the way there. Getting to 100% is a very, very expensive proposition. For far less money we could help countries like Mexico, China and Germany to stop polluting so much. And the improvement to world air quality would be far greater.
It is not just a matter of where we can get the most effect for the dollar spent. It is where we can have the biggest and fastest impact on the problem of worldwide air pollution.
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