Comments on: Still time to Stop Billions in Coal/Nuke Subsidies http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/14/still-time-to-stop-billions-in-coalnuke-subsidies/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: G.R.L. Cowan, hydrogen-to-boron convert http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/14/still-time-to-stop-billions-in-coalnuke-subsidies/#comment-58408 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:14:06 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/14/still-time-to-stop-billions-in-coalnuke-subsidies/#comment-58408 Guaranteeing billions in nuke loans is actually a pretty
good idea because it gets the feds onside in new nuclear
development.

If they can derail a new nuclear plant that would
have given uranium miners $40 million of work per year,
they win a lot of money, because natural gas used
in uranium’s place costs $650 million a year, both
at current prices.

But if by that derailment they stick themselves
with paying off billions in construction loans
that they have guaranteed, that cancels their
ill-gotten natural gas gains for quite a few years.

If it doesn’t pay, they won’t betray the earth
as they did in the 70s.

]]> By: eesolutions http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/14/still-time-to-stop-billions-in-coalnuke-subsidies/#comment-58395 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:44:15 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/14/still-time-to-stop-billions-in-coalnuke-subsidies/#comment-58395 Mike, Great information!! I’m involved in local energy politics in Cheltenham, PA and I support your thinking regarding the most appropriate energy approaches. We should reduce our energy usage through conservation and encourage more use of solar and wind energy. Also, we should stop subsidizing the corporate energy industry – big oil and big ethanol (the extremely inefficient use of corn to produce ethanol will cause food prices to rise and exacerbate the pending global resource wars). Let’s encourage “subsidy shifting” from the oil industry to the alternative energy folks. We have started an Environmental Advisory Committee in Cheltenham to work on some of these issues.

Thanks,
Tom Petersen
eesolutions.wordpress.com
http://www.eesolutions.net

]]> By: Charlie Peters http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/14/still-time-to-stop-billions-in-coalnuke-subsidies/#comment-58393 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:31:21 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/12/14/still-time-to-stop-billions-in-coalnuke-subsidies/#comment-58393 Does corn fuel ethanol policy increase oil use and oil profit?

* Some folks think so.

* Clean Air Performance Professionals

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