Nobody talks about nuclear power because if you so much as whisper it, you’ll be clubbed to death by Birkenstock wearing former hippies. Even if you could get the various permits from the Obama machine (never happen) you’d still be picketed and sued into oblivion. No politician in the current circumstances would risk so much as proposing a committee to research the possibility of building more nuclear reactors. It would take a sea change in Washington and a power company with deep pockets to pull off one tiny new reactor.
I’d like to see legislation preventing lawsuits once a project is permitted. (Snail darters, anyone?)
“Nobody talks about nuclear power because if you so much as whisper it, you’ll be clubbed to death by Birkenstock wearing former hippies.”
Mention damming a river for hydroelectric, and see what THAT gets you. The cheapest form of energy we have, and it’s even RENEWABLE AND CLEAN, but the left HATES IT.
Not enough graft to spread around.
Environmentalism is a luxury — the only time when you can afford environmentalism is when you have a prosperous economy and people are not freezing and starving.