Thread: Nuke 'Em!

Originally Posted by maniclion

I am surprised you fiscal conservatives are even backing this....

I consider myself a fiscal conservative. why should I not back this?

as I see it, it is an 8 billion loan guarantee. it's an incentive that only costs the taxpayers if something doesn't work out down the road. And it is for a cause I feel is an acceptable risk because of the potential payoff. considering how much the government is handing out recently to corporations just to keep them solvent this seems like a bargain.

Originally Posted by bio-chem

I consider myself a fiscal conservative. why should I not back this?

as I see it, it is an 8 billion loan guarantee. it's an incentive that only costs the taxpayers if something doesn't work out down the road. And it is for a cause I feel is an acceptable risk because of the potential payoff. considering how much the government is handing out recently to corporations just to keep them solvent this seems like a bargain.

I'm just saying I am all for anything other than burning fossil fuels and reading some of the financial sites commentary makes me pretty confident we will be footing the bill for these reactors, if they even get built....

Nuclear is the way to go.

All the soap dodgers, hippies and enviro-nazis who say otherwise can go fuck themselves.

Originally Posted by maniclion

I'm just saying I am all for anything other than burning fossil fuels and reading some of the financial sites commentary makes me pretty confident we will be footing the bill for these reactors, if they even get built....

at 3-5 cents/kilowatt hour for 2500 combined MW that seems like a pretty damn good deal

Originally Posted by bio-chem

I consider myself a fiscal conservative. why should I not back this?

as I see it, it is an 8 billion loan guarantee. it's an incentive that only costs the taxpayers if something doesn't work out down the road. And it is for a cause I feel is an acceptable risk because of the potential payoff. considering how much the government is handing out recently to corporations just to keep them solvent this seems like a bargain.

It's also no different than the construction of our highway system. That was a major undertaking that no private corporation could ever match. It's an investment in our infrastructure that will pay itself off tenfold. It's also much cleaner than coal power plants, especially if we use thorium reactors like they do in France. That should minimize toxic waste as much as possible.