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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (191422)	10/12/2001 1:15:10 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

Wrong, wrong, and wrong. I don't oppose domestic production (I just think we should be a little more efficient in it's use... oil being a dwindling resource, don't 'ya know.) ... And we've got enough coal to last four or five hundred years. I don't oppose hydro (where sensible) or nuclear fusion, and I'm willing to work with fission - if we can eliminate the security threat and allow it to stand on it's own two feet... which we haven't. The Price Anderson Act (up for renewal under Bush's laughable 'energy plan') loads all of the possible catastrophic costs of failure (the "economic loss of an area the size of Pennsylvania" to quote the Energy Department) upon the backs of the taxpayers. That is dangerous, that is fool-hardy, that is industrial policy of the worst kind, that is socialist-thinking... but what it definitely ISN'T is good old CAPITALISM. If the industry can stand on it's own two feet, insurance wise, like all the other energy industries, than it doesn't need a massive subsidy. After-all, it wasn't the 'eco-lobby' that stopped the industry in it's tracks after three mile island, it was the BANKERS. Anyway, the quickest way to destroy America isn't to lob a few nukes at one of our major cities, it's to crack a few containment domes... or fly a light plane into some of that spent reactor fuel stored on-site. Nothing like losing the East coast for a few thousands of years to put a crimp in our economic empire. (We could choose to subsidize photo-electric... to pick just one fairly minor alternative energy source, without running any security risks. Not much risk if an airliner plows into a field of photocells, is there?) And as far as the US being "the primary guarantor of democracy around the world.", sad to say, that's probably true... as far as it goes, but it doesn't usually go very far. If oil (or even bananas) gets in the way, we have been quite happy to quit 'guaranteeing' anything.... Just a few examples from a very long list: Guatemala, Chile, Iran, dare I say 'Vietnam', etc., etc. All US coups, all (except the last) against elected governments. Could probably mention a good double dozen. When it comes down to money vs. principles, I'm betting on money every time.