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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Fox Nukes McCain touts gas-tax holiday as well as 'long-term solutions'	Kate Sheppard	02 May 2008	Gristmill
McCain on the long-term solution to dependence on foreign oil: Nuclear! Despite what those 'extremist environmental organizations' tell you. And despite the fact that only 2 percent of our electricity comes from oil.
Topics: dumbassery, energy, John McCain, Muckraker, news, nuclear power, oil, politics (all these topics)

'ANWR, nukes, more ethanol, new technology, blah, blah, blah' Bush's energy/food strategy unsurprisingly underwhelming	Joseph Romm	30 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Bush had a press conference yesterday morning to blame Congress for soaring energy and food prices: 'Unfortunately, on many of these issues, all [Americans] are getting is delay.' What does non-delayer Bush propose? Well, of course, new technology -- what else is new old? Heck, he even said the long-term answer was hydrogen. (Not!) Oh, but he did offer some 'short-term' solutions. His answer to rising electricity prices: Nukes! As electricity prices rise, Congr ...
Topics: Arctic Refuge, energy, ethanol, George Bush, nuclear power, oil, politics (all these topics)

Wildcatting the wind in Texas Conventional energy vs. renewable energy	Joseph Romm	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- As all eyes turn toward Texas this week in advance of the Democratic primary, we will see a state that is beginning its transition to a new energy economy. Texas is grappling with a shift the entire nation faces -- and as usual, it's doing it on a big scale. When it comes to energy and to carbon emissions, Texas is a place of super ...
Topics: coal, energy, nuclear power, oil, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Spectacularly ignorant claim of the day Nukes don't replace oil	David Roberts	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Over at the New Republic's blog, Adam Blinick writes: As it stands, nuclear power is the only environmentally friendly, economic, and efficient source of energy that can help the U.S. wean itself off foreign oil. For the record: Oil is primarily a transportation fuel. Nuclear power, in contrast, is a source of electricity. Ergo, nuclear power will do absolutely nothing to "help the U.S. wean itself off foreign oil" (unless we miraculously electrif ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, oil, politics (all these topics)

White courtesy phone, paging Homer Simpson Necessity is the mother of invention ... and some really bad ideas	JMG	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Mein Gott. I was so hoping that this article was from The Onion or something. Porta-nukes will power oil-shale melters, because there's just no topping the American spirit -- the willingness to take a truly abysmal idea (oil shales) and make it worse: The portable nuclear reactor is the size of a hot tub. It's shaped like a sake cup, filled with a uranium hydride core and surrounded by a hydrogen atmosphere. Encase it in concrete, truck it to a site, bury it underground, hook i ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, oil (all these topics)

Are Republican presidential candidates taking global warming seriously? Brownback's plan is not promising	David Roberts	23 May 2007	Gristmill
He hasn't released a detailed plan yet, but Republican presidential contender Sam Brownback gave a speech yesterday to the Set America Free coalition that outlined his thoughts on energy policy. (There's more info in this Greenwire story, but it's subscription only.) Republican candidates haven't talked about climate and energy as much as their Dem counterparts, but Brownback's comments are more or less representative. Consider this a critique, then, of mainstream Re ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, coal, elections, energy, ethanol, greenhouse-gas emissions, nuclear power, oil, politics (all these topics)

Another attempt to push nukes Using high gas prices to push for a rebirth	Jon Rynn	23 May 2007	Gristmill
In today's New York Times, President Gerald Ford's energy adviser, in an article entitled 'How to Win the Energy War,' tries to use higher gas prices and oil dependence as an excuse to build more nuclear reactors: The other major way to wean us from oil is to resume construction of nuclear power plants. Nuclear energy is the cleanest and best option for America's electric power supply, yet it has been stalled by decades of unproductive debate. Our current commercial nucle ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, oil, politics (all these topics)

Profiles in dishonesty Patrick Moore proves to be -- gasp -- a nuclear shill	John McGrath	17 May 2007	Gristmill
We anti-nuclear folks are frequently accused of closed-mindedness. Like, you know, Chernobyl is so 1980s. Get with the here and now, man.So I was interested to see how nuclear shill extraordinaire Patrick Moore would react to the news that the Canadian oil industry is increasingly interested in geothermal power as an alternative to nuclear in the heat-starved tar sands developments. The heat produced by obviously-feasible technology would be a perfect fit, and if those ...
Topics: energy, nuclear power, oil (all these topics)

Wait -- They Drilled for Gas With a Nuclear Bomb?! Oil company hopes to drill near nuclear-blast cavity in Colorado		09 May 2005	Daily Grist
Wait -- They Drilled for Gas With a Nuclear Bomb?! Oil company hopes to drill near nuclear-blast cavity in Colorado Some 36 years ago, the Atomic Energy Commission and a Texas oil company put a nuclear bomb in an 8,000-foot shaft on Colorado's energy-rich Western Slope and detonated it, hoping to reach a reserve of natural gas lying beneath the subterranean rock. T ...
Topics: business, Colorado, energy, mining and drilling, natural gas, news, nuclear power, oil (all these topics)

Like Apples and Radioactive Oranges Claims that nuclear energy can reduce oil use are largely hokum		09 May 2005	Daily Grist
Like Apples and Radioactive Oranges Claims that nuclear energy can reduce oil use are largely hokum President Bush hearts nuclear -- or in the argot of the day, nucular -- claiming that a boost in nuclear energy could reduce oil imports and help America reach the Shangri-la of "energy independence." But people who, um, know stuff about nuclear energy are highly skeptical. There are some ways that nuclear could m ...
Topics: energy, news, nuclear power, oil (all these topics)

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