I wrote last week about President Obama’s pledge to increase the amount of federal money available to loan out to people so they can build new nuclear power plants. I wrote:
In reality, this is very easy for him to promote. He knows that any new proposed nuclear power plants would be smothered in red tape, eco-Marxist protests and the usual NIMBY push back.
He loses nothing by pushing it. He knows it will never happen but can position himself as being for it.
When you look at the actions he has taken, or lack thereof, you can see that I was pretty much spot on. Obama has no intent of pushing nuclear power. Via Moonbattery:
…he has stacked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with anti-nuclear activists.
He has replaced Bush’s NRC Chairman (a strong pro-nuclear guy) with a former Harry Reid anti-nuclear Senate staffer. He has also left two (of the five Commission positions) vacant.
Basically, this “push” for nuclear power is just a ruse to try and get cap and trade passed. Democrats are far to beholden to the Luddite environmental left to seriously support nuclear power. The only place Obama really supports nuclear power is Iran.
I agree. Van Helsing makes a great point. I hadn’t considered the cap and trade aspect of it. But it makes sense.
In related news, check out this post on Pajamas Media, showing that you don’t need $9 billion to get a nuke plant. This is the answer.
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I can’t believe anybody fell for his cr*p AGAIN.
He cut the funding to Yucca Mountian, so there’ll be no place to put the waste.
He eliminated funding for Thorium reactor research, which would have put an end to 95 percent of nuclear waste forever.
All so Democrats can say, “Gee, we’d love to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil and abandon our bullsneeze “green” technologies that don’t work, but gosh…where would we put the waste?”
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