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Nuclear powered car? Well not exactly, but if the Repugs get there way next year and ram their pork-laden energy bill up our orifices we may well be driving cars indirectly powered by nuclear. Many moons ago I predicted that King George the Witless’ so-called ‘hydrogen economy’ was really just a smokescreen for the “nuculer” (sic) industry. In one of those “I hate it when I’m right” moments, apparently the energy bill does exactly that – it “includes $1.1 billion to construct an atomic reactor in Idaho to produce hydrogen.” And didn’t President Pathological Liar claim that the so-called hydrogen car would be nonpolluting?”
“A public that yearns for, and has now been promised, “pollution-free” energy will be given instead something that produces plutonium, strontium, cesium and dozens of other highly toxic radioactive waste products. One can only imagine the chuckles inside the White House about the “gotcha” built into the hydrogen initiative. You environmentalists want clean hydrogen instead of oil? We’ll give you plutonium. “
Swopa laughed at me when I termed the energy bill ‘pure evil,’ but check out this next wonderful provision:
“The energy bill would also reauthorize the Price-Anderson Act, the most extraordinary piece of corporate socialist legislation in U.S. history. Price- Anderson immunizes the nuclear industry from as much as 99 percent of the liability it might face in case of a serious release of radioactivity in a major accident. This subsidy has always been difficult for nuclear advocates to explain. On the one hand, they tell the public that the technology is safe and people living near reactors have nothing to worry about — in fact, we should be building more of them. On the other hand, they tell Congress correctly that the technology is so dangerous that no insurer will accept the risks, and that unless Congress limits the public’s right to compensation for damages, the free market will bring nuclear power to a halt.”
Clean Cars? Clean Coal? Safe Nukes? Dickhead Cheney must keep 1984 on his nightstand for inspirational reading!
Tags: Dick Cheney, Energy Bill, hydrogen economy, nuclear energy, President George W. Bush, Price-Anderson Act