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To: koan who wrote (9894)	2/20/2012 7:19:32 PM
From: Bearcatbob	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

<<I do not think coal is cheaper than nuclear - but I am open on that.>> What about all the mercury being sperad around the world? Or is that another thing, the scientific community is making up? Or something (else) you don't worry about. So your kids eat fish with so much mercury it retards their babies. Not your worry, right. Oh, I forgot that is just another liberal ruse. koan, The subject of discussion was the cost of electricity from various sources. Is it possible for your smoked out brain to follow a thread of discussion?

To: koan who wrote (9894)	2/20/2012 7:56:47 PM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

U.S. power plants actually contribute a mere 3% of the total MERCURY deposited in computer-modeled American watersheds, ..... the agency’s estimates for MERCURY exposure risks are solely for “hypothetical female subsistence consumers” who daily eat almost a pound of fish that they themselves catch in U.S. streams, rivers, and lakes over a 70-year lifetime. That’s less than 1% of U.S. women. [ Hell, it's probably ZERO! "female subsistence consumers?" A pound of fish a day? Where the hell does such a person exist? Mama Boucher from The Waterboy? ] For the rest of American women (who eat mostly ocean fish, purchased at a grocery, on a far less regular basis), EPA’s rules are irrelevant .... the probability that all the EPA’s improbable scenarios will actually happen is virtually zero; the likelihood that its new regulations will benefit human health is also zero. ....http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=27925398