<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Climate-bill sponsors talk about nukes and wooing McCain]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/its-nukes-to-me/ Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:41:08 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/its-nukes-to-me/1 Insert

It would be a good time to substitute the "compromise" for the Lie-berman (sic) amendment.  

At least it would introduce the idea of throwing a relatively safe and inexpensive bone to the nuke-you-ler pit bull.  Before it bites US again, in another subsidized buildout of platinum plated contamination and pork.

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It would be a good time to substitute the "compromise" for the Lie-berman (sic) amendment.  

At least it would introduce the idea of throwing a relatively safe and inexpensive bone to the nuke-you-ler pit bull.  Before it bites US again, in another subsidized buildout of platinum plated contamination and pork.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

]]> Comment #2 by Wolverine http://www.grist.org/article/its-nukes-to-me/ Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:22:54 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/its-nukes-to-me/2 Poison Pill

If Boxer were to support a bill that included nuke subsidies, she'd probably be voted out of office.  Nuclear power is wildly unpopular in California, and the only reason we still have two nuclear power plants is that they're privately owned.  The one nuke plant owned by a public utility was torn down and replaced with a solar power plant.  (This is an excellent reason that all power utilities should be publicly owned.)  While I'm currently on the fence about this bill due to its weaknesses, I'd strongly and unequivocally oppose it if it were to contain more subsidies for nuclear power.

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If Boxer were to support a bill that included nuke subsidies, she'd probably be voted out of office.  Nuclear power is wildly unpopular in California, and the only reason we still have two nuclear power plants is that they're privately owned.  The one nuke plant owned by a public utility was torn down and replaced with a solar power plant.  (This is an excellent reason that all power utilities should be publicly owned.)  While I'm currently on the fence about this bill due to its weaknesses, I'd strongly and unequivocally oppose it if it were to contain more subsidies for nuclear power.

]]> Comment #3 by KenG http://www.grist.org/article/its-nukes-to-me/ Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:40:20 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/its-nukes-to-me/3 Public Utiities

With the Rancho Seco conversion to solar, the utility reduced the electrical production to one half of one percent of what it was - reduced electrical generation by a factor of 200. Somehow that doesn't give me a warm feeling about all utilities being publicly owned.

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With the Rancho Seco conversion to solar, the utility reduced the electrical production to one half of one percent of what it was - reduced electrical generation by a factor of 200. Somehow that doesn't give me a warm feeling about all utilities being publicly owned.

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