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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:11 PM Original message |
Poll question: Why is the GOP pushing nuclear power? |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
1. Because it's the most cost-efficient, it's carbon-neutral, we have a near-infinite domestic supply, |
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ogneopasno (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:14 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. +1. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. So, this is the only issue the GOP has right? |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Cheap power largely funded by the government, duh. |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 07:21 AM Response to Reply #8 |
24. Exactly, privatized profit/socialized risk = Republican heaven! |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:33 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Because, as I said but perhaps not clearly enough, |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. This is why you think they're pushing it at the exclusion of every other alternative? n/t |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:41 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Yes. They like single solutions to complex problems. (Drill Baby Drill, anyone?) |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:53 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Are you saying the GOP has politiczed the issue? |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 11:05 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Yes, I think that is a fair summary of my opinion. nt |
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peacebird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. it's only cost efficient if the govt gives huge subsidies to build the plants |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:57 PM Response to Reply #5 |
15. We need to shine more light on what is getting subsidized and what isn't. n/t |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. +2 (nt) |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 02:16 AM Response to Reply #1 |
21. Except When It Isn't |
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Onceuponalife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 02:55 AM Response to Reply #1 |
22. +3 |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 08:24 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Grow up? Dems and Libs? |
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Onceuponalife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 07:01 PM Response to Reply #25 |
33. I'm a Green Party member |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 10:43 AM Response to Reply #22 |
30. I take it that you are volunteering your back forty as a storage site |
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Onceuponalife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 07:33 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. You bring up a valid point |
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Kitty Herder (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 03:26 AM Response to Reply #1 |
23. Those who are in favor of it, would you feel the same if they wanted to |
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Massacure (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 09:59 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. I live less than 20 miles from a nuclear power plant and I wouldn't mind another reactor. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 11:53 AM Response to Reply #23 |
31. I live one county away from a nuke plant that stores its waste in casks on-site. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 10:01 AM Response to Reply #1 |
27. misguided environmentalists.?....let's store the waste in your basement |
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Muttocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
3. profits, ignore consequences, hope they'll all be raptured before too much waste builds up? nt |
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Juche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
6. Because it is a non-fossil fuel that liberals hate |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 10:36 AM Response to Reply #6 |
29. Expensive and dangerous=not efficient |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
7. Because the waste won't be buried in *their* neighborhood. |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 10:33 PM Response to Original message |
10. Nuclear power keeps energy production centralized, and in the same few hands that have it now. |
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BrightKnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
17. Because the Democratic Party is wearing knee pads for Big Coal. |
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Kokonoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 01:11 AM Response to Original message |
18. Anything that divides people. Thats what its all about. nt |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
19. Cause other nuke companies are running into countries, starting up and making ... |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 01:49 AM Response to Original message |
20. because Obama already owns "clean coal" |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
28. For the same reasons that the Democrats are pushing for nuke power |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
32. OTHER: It involves large corporations all the way around, who |
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scarletwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-04-09 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
34. "Other": Kickbacks. (nt) |
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