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To: Joe NYC who wrote (246866)	8/21/2005 7:21:55 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571735

"If every power plant built since the first oil crisis been nuclear, our dependence on foreign oil would have been a fraction of what it is today" Unlikely. There are very few purely oil fired plants, if any. Now true, there are many that can use oil as well as natural gas and often coal. But the price of oil has been higher than either of the other two for long enough that I doubt if any of them have burned any oil in a while. Now having said that, I do favor nuclear power plants, have for a very long time. They don't release thorium and other radionuclides like coal plants do, and the high level waste is pretty compact and can be stored. Yeah, at some point we need to figure out what to do with it, but that can wait.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (246866)	8/21/2005 8:34:46 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571735

re: And our GDP is roughly in a similar proportion. And our GDP is almost identical to the EU which has much lower per capita energy consumption. re: Our oil consumption is doing that. If every power plant built since the first oil crisis been nuclear, our dependence on foreign oil would have been a fraction of what it is today, with a side benefit of not wrecking the economy, hence the GDP above. What fraction, 7/8? Over 40% of our consumption goes to personal motor vehicles. That's the bulk, that's where the savings can come. By the way I favor nuclear power, always have. re: Of course you will not hear this from the liberals, especially not from NY Times... blah blah blah Don't you ever get tired repeating the same old rhetoric? The energy problem is bipartisan, give it a break. re: Not a straw man on my part, but an unnecessary nitpicking on your part. No, it's certainly not. There is a big difference between "not tax cuts" and "increasing taxes"? John