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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: American Spirit who wrote (138561)4/15/2001 3:05:31 PM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
Even under the most optimistic forecast. When your population is increasing 10-25%, (such as it is in California) decreasing consumption without increasing supply is not going to allow cheap energy to be available. And it's folly to believe otherwise.

Sure, we can take measures to decrease consumption. But let's not kid ourselves, decreasing consumption while the population is booming is not a recipe for success.

Finding clean ways of increasing the available supply of energy is. And one of the cleanest energy resources is nuclear power. If we had continued building nuclear power plants, we would have a cleaner environment today, and more inexpensive energy available. It's as simple as that. When nuclear power plants were prevented from being built because of activists like the Sierra club or Greenpeace. Coal simply took its place in many cases.

What you seem to think is that if we just decrease demand, our energy problems will evaporate. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Denying this reality has gotten us into the mess we're in. And it looks like Democrats are still willing to continue denying reality. Living in a utopian dream world is not the real world. In the real world, people want to use their air-conditioner, pool, and SUV.
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