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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (6198)	4/7/2006 9:44:52 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Energy meltdown "America now burns a billion tons of coal a year — double what we consumed in 1976. That puts 300 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is 20 percent of the world's output. This is no accident. Read Jimmy Carter's famous cardigan sweater speech of 1977, and you'll see that one of his goals was to ... increase our coal production by about two thirds to more than 1 billion tons a year. We made it. "Carter had to embrace coal because he was already backing away from nuclear power. Only 11 days before his fireside chat, and after less than three months in office, Carter had shut down the completed Barnwell Fuel Reprocessing Plant, a private venture that had invested millions. The result was a huge loss of faith in the industry, the forfeiting of the technology to Europe and Japan, and the brand new problem of 'nuclear waste.' " — William Tucker, writing on "The Polar Bear in the Room," April 3 in the American Enterprise Online at www.taemag.com