"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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basskisser wrote:

Harry Krause wrote in message
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basskisser wrote:
"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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Was the very liberal left who got new nuclear power plant
construction
prohibited. Look at both Japan and France for how many plants have
been
built since.

Horse****! Big oil doesn't want nuclear energy. What group of
politicians cozy up to big oil, and their money?

New Nuclear power plants haven't been built because the regulations imposed
on them make it economically a bad investment. This has been true for 20
years. Only those plants that were in constuction were finished. Most
Nuclear power plants are MORE THAN 20 YEARS OLD. Big oil, horse**** to use
your words. Most powerplants during that period didn't use oil, they used
coal.

How old are you guys? Gesh.... we are 25% Nuclear Power to France's 80%.
France supplies electricity to most of western Europe. France wanted the
Kyoto treaty so that it could have a stronger hand in Europe's future. All
the countries around it would have to cut back on their coal fired power
plants and buy energy from France at greatly increased rates. FRANCE WOULD
THEN BE in a position to control the EU.

Since we are apx. 60% dependant on fossil fuels for electricity our
industrial base would have been crippled. We would then have been a third
world country (massive unemployment, disruption of our transportation
system). Think about double your electric bill and three times your gas
bill, when you can find gas. Who would have been hit the hardest, the poor.
Who cares about the poor...Bush. All for a .5 degree rise in the global
temperature due to the last 20 years fossil fuels have been used.

The seas will not rise due to polar ice melting. It seems that the
temperature at the poles is minus 50 degrees F. To get a polar meltdown
would require a world temp increase of 82 degrees. One senator out of
Wyoming (I think) mentioned that they were having a tremendous drought
because of global warming. Turns out that his region was 2 degrees cooler
than normal and that the pattern of weather in that area was normal for a 25
year cycle.

Bush did the right thing.

I'm bringing up Kyoto because it's one of the things that the democrats use
as a talking point. Pointing out that Bush has alienated Europe by not
signing the treaty. Cutting our throat economically to make France happy is
STUPID. I'm sure that if Gore had been elected in 2000 he would have done
the same (he's not stupid even though he sometimes sounds like he is).