Letters to the Editor
NotOrbitBoy
Published Letters: 499 Editor's Choice: 5
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Nuclear Power Hysteria - thanks liberals.
[Read the article: Nuclear bomb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Talk about fear mongering. During the 70's and 80's there were all kinds of efforts to thwart nuclear power in the US. This was primarily backed by liberals. In addition to blocking construction, the "former hall monitors who tattled on other kids then became buearocrats" got into the rule making jobs, and construction of nuclear power became very costly. Lawyers gotta do something I guess.
Safe engineering practices are imperative (obviously), but excessive regulation was the death knell for nuclear power. That was the intended outcome of the dork rule makers.
Today, some of the old liberals have changed their tune, and some of the new liberals weren't brain washed into thinking that nuclear power is bad. The brain washing classes focused on other topics.
So now, after pumping untold tonnage of CO2 into our atmosphere, creating acid rain by burning coal, and giving people nightmares over the nuclear power boogie man, even people from Greenpeace realize they screwed up.
The global warming fear mongers of today sound a lot like the nuclear power fear mongers of the 70/80s.
The author of this column is flat out ignorant.
Read what France has done with nuclear power. Our US Navy is equally successful in managing nuclear power plants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
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@Beauzeau
[Read the article: Nuclear bomb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your comments:
1) Wrong Francophobia isn't the problem. I agree that France is a good model. I disagree that we do not follow that model due to Francophobia. Excessive regulation prevents us from following that model. Regulations vary state by state, and within local municipalities. Anywhere a nuclear opponent has had a chance to toss a wrench in the machine, that wrench was thrown.
Big business wants to make money. They don't care if its french, russian, or vietnamese. If they can make more money by out-sourcing plant design and construction. . . how many examples would it take for you to conclude that they will do so?
2. Bulls-eye
3. Don't Worry Despite what your fear mongering liberal friends might tell you, big oil does not control all of energy production. They currently offer the best priced, most popular product. Reform the excessive regulation of nuclear power, and big oil will have competitors.
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France: 79% of their power is nuclear energy
[Read the article: Nuclear bomb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]joeromm: Good to hear you gave nukes a wedge.
In france, the wedge is 79% of the pie.
Nuclear power can work, if goverment and private industry act reasonably. The problem in the US is that government has acted unreasonably. . . try answering this question;
How does france make it work?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
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@cabman
[Read the article: Nuclear bomb]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ideology killed nuclear power in the US.
Are there newer, better designs for nuclear power today, than were in existence in the 70s? Answer: Yes. Same is true with cars...with the possible exception being the Checker cab.
Government regulation was, and continues to be, a way in which various special interest groups fight battles. Lawyers play a starring role. Lawsuits, fines, regulatory fees, sloppily written regulations that cause a potential investor to ask "what I am getting into here?".
The argument in this column suggests that nuclear power doesn't make financial sense. If that is true then either; 1) the french are idiots for relying on nuke plants for 79% of their energy, as are the European countries that buy that technology from France, OR 2) there is a reason it does not make financial sense in the US.
I suggest that politically motivated regulatory practices are to blame.
I'd like to live in the non-political world you seek. Let me know if you find it. It won't be the product of a liberal.
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It ain't over til it's over
[Read the article: Barack Obama's epic win]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Others have posted that obama doesn't have anything locked up, that you shouldn't count votes before they are cast (despite what they say to a reporter, the superdelegates haven't actually voted yet).
The clintons seem to be acting on that fact.
An interesting angle to this story is whether or not obama is going to pay off the clinton's campaign debts. They want their money back.
What does obama get? billary's withdrawal from the campaign? . . . in which case it would really be over?
Another example of clintons acting on behalf of clintons.
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@natesmith124
[Read the article: The other 18 million]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read it.
Clinton's don't take responsibility, they take credit.
It's sad to see all the talk about a candidate's sex, color, religion, ethnicity, and race.
What happened to being blind to all of this? MLK would be sick.
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100's of Letters - where's the policy discussion?
[Read the article: The other 18 million]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's interesting to read hundreds of letters, many of which hurl insults back and forth between obama and hillary supporters, but next to no discussion about underlying policy views that cause the poster to have such passionate feeling for or against a candidate.
It sure sounds like a lot of sexism and racism within the democratic party.
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@Mike LeP
[Read the article: The other 18 million]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The article claims that obama needs to win over "the other 18 million".
If not via his policy positions, how is obama supposed to gain the support of the 18 million?
Do democrats prefer to make their choice based on race, gender, orientation, astrological sign, or ...?
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The Obvious Choice
[Read the article: Who will Obama choose as veep? Nope, you're wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Assuming clinton doesn't pull off some sort of coup, obama should pick;
DICK CHENEY.
Why?
1) Experience in the VP job.
2) Get the neocon vote.
3) salonistas can continue venting, ranting, and raving that Dick Cheney should be impeached.
It's brilliant.
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One Other Point
[Read the article: Who will Obama choose as veep? Nope, you're wrong]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As I read the letters this morning there is an ad promoting the "pink patch". It contains a photo of a girl in pink underwear, who obviously does not need this weight loss device.
I consider that sexist. I thought salon was above this.
They ought to make blue patches too.