Wow, what real geniuses these jet flying, limousine riding music stars are...
Posted on 10/12/2007 10:05:04 AM PDT by BlazingArizona
In 1979, we helped organize five nights of concerts at Madison Square Garden and an anti-nuke rally that drew 200,000 people. These efforts and the ongoing work of many grassroots and national safe energy groups have helped to hold off the building of new nuclear reactors ever since.
But three decades later, we're facing the same nuclear issues. And to counter this threat, we are organizing once again.
One of America's most critical financial and ecological decisions is now before Congress. The atomic energy industry wants at least $50 billion in loan guarantees for a "new generation" of reactors that have already begun to fail, and that Wall Street won't finance. Bonnie Raitt answers your questions
If these subsidies pass, scores of new radioactive terror targets, thousands of tons of radioactive waste and untold billions in bad debt could haunt us and our children for a long time to come.
Yet the sentence allowing all this to happen was slipped into the Senate version of the 2007 energy bill without serious public debate. Without strong public opposition, it could become part of the new energy bill. And with the millions the nuke lobby is spending, defeating this huge taxpayer rip-off will require a maximum effort from everyone committed to a safe energy future.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
But opposing nuclear power is a religious issue to many Boomers. The writers of this article are surviving Sixties musicians who made antinuclear ballads last time around. Watch for them to rise from their wheelchairs to shake their canes at The Man one more time.
Washed-up hack singer/songwriters unite - against nuclear energy!
Maybe Bonnie, Jackson, Graham, et al, will demand that their music NOT be played, in order to save precious electricity.
Fools. If they really want us to not be dependent on oil (and all the greenhouse gas emissions it causes that they fear so much) embracing nuclear power is the first step.
Wow, what real geniuses these jet flying, limousine riding music stars are...
Celebrities.
Is there anything they don’t know?
I laugh when these marginally-educated dimwits complain about the escalating costs of building reactos.
They don’t mention that many of the costs are incurred because slow-thinking celebrities help fund environmental lawsuits against the manufacturers, forcing them to incorporate inexpensive and unnecessary features into the reactor and support structures.
And then there’s the DECADES of delays while these lawsuits are settled.
Funny thing that Bonnei, Jackson & Graham don't tell us how much they have invested in these "suddenly profitable" entities.
The Population Bomb movement has many faces. Anti-nuke is one of them and not the most powerful.
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I wonder how many diesel generators they’ll need for their stage lights and sound systems.
On another note, I’m with them in opposing the subsidies for nukes- not because I don’t like nukes, but because I don’t like subsidies.
Well, here's the thing.
There are incredibly high artificial regulatory barriers to entry in the nuclear energy sector.
The subsidies basically acknowledge that the government has made it so economically forbidding to enter the sector due to its onerous regulation that it is offering subsidies to help overcome the economic barriers it created.
Don’t forget that the underlying aim is to bring down the economy of the U.S.A. What they seem not to have considered is the effect this will have on their own lives, in a material sense.
I had no idea Bonnie Raitt had degrees in engineering and envrionmental sciences, nor was I aware of her previous nuclear power experience.../sarc
If cost is their metric in opposing an energy source, then they should really, really, really be against things like solar PV, whose costs per kwhr dwarf those of nuclear. Not to mention very poor capacity factors and availability.
If subsidies are the metric for opposing an energy source, then these idiot clowns should really, really, really protest against things like so-called "renewable" energy. In my state alone, at one time (not sure if they still have it), if you installed certain kinds of "green" energy systems in your home, you could claim a tax credit that covers up to 50% of the cost of such a system. The government has spent billions on "renewables" and after all this time and money those are struggling to supply barely a fraction of a percent of our energy needs. If anything qualifies as a "failure", it's those things.
Could not agree more. Nuke POWER FOR THE PEOPLE
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