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Winning elections is not good enough
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:18:20 -0500, wrote:
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:33:55 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 10:30:00 -0500, BAR wrote:
Drilling in all of Alaska, off the coast of Calif., the Gulf of Mexico
and the Eastern Seaboard will solve the price problem.
At best you might be able to kick the can down the road another 10
years or so. Long term we need policies that encourage the switch to
other forms of energy.
CNG is a pretty attractive option that is not getting any traction at
all.
As previously described CNG has problems also... fracking.
I'd much rather see nuclear plants that are standardized (e.g.,
regulated design specs) and carefully monitored. Spent fuel is an
issue, but it's possible to do it.
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf69.html
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