Comments on: McCain Calls For Nuclear Power Expansion

Ariz. Senator Wants More Reactors Built, Increased Funding For Clean Coal

[homespunlady]

From above:
"And our manufacturing base to even construct these plants is almost gone."

Even so, he said he would set the country on a course to build 45 new ones by 2030, with a longer-term goal of adding another 55 in the future.

"We will need to recover all the knowledge and skills that have been lost over three stagnant decades in a highly technical field," he conceded."


Hmm.. did the people building and dealing with the plants DIE OFF?

Wonder why when it''s ONLY been about 30 years?

Heck if you were 20 working on building it that would only make you 50 - over 20 years YOUNGER THAN McCain.

Of course sounds like some of my former coworkers might get a job - but then again I''m NOT SO SURE they''re STILL ALIVE either.

Al least my kid wasn''t born with 2 heads - just a few "little" other problems that leave me worrying about LONG term effects.

Either way, those conveniently NOT noticed civilian and Mennonite cancer clusters around a few certain "sites" aren''t anything to worry about..right?

[ubrew12]

dmw1167 said: "No one living today will see renewable energy of any quanity,"
I support the limited expansion of nuclear (with careful attention to waste, etc). Nevertheless, that is just so much doo-doo! Just because they haven''t built anything doesn''t mean it cannot be built. The last time this country used its tax resources on alternative energy (back in the 30s), we built just about every dam in America, and still generate 20% of our power that way. To take one example, there''s enough power in ocean waves off 100 miles of California''s coastline to power the entire state (no other sources needed). Again, just because we''re blind to alternatives, doesn''t mean they don''t exist, it just means we''re blind.

[labrat9999]

Would someone please tell the old man of the sea (McBush) that there IS a small problem with Nuclear facilities..I think it was called Three Mile Island and Chernobyl "On 26 April 1986 at 01:23:44 a.m. (UTC+3) reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located in the Soviet Union near Pripyat in Ukraine exploded. Further explosion and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area. Nearly thirty to forty times more fallout was released than had been by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." So where would you suggest we put this puppy? I know how about Texas or Arizona? This is just more of the same garbage brought to you by people with little or no memory remaining!

[formrusmcsgt]

McCain''s call for alifting of the ban on offshore drilling is only a ploy for the ignorant.

Even if the ban were to be lifted, it''d be 5 or 6 years before any market impact would be felt.

McCain counts on the ignorance of those who don''t understand the exploraion and drilling processes who''ll say "John wants to open up offshore drilling to get us out of tis mess".

Plus, he and Bush wish to protray the Dems as unsympathetic to the current price crunch should they not vote to lift the ban, even though it would have no impact on prices for several years.

The current crisis can be laid at Phill Gramm''s feet who got a third of the market derugulated by a Repub Congress at the behest of Ken Lay from Enron.

BTW, a big contributor to Bush and a member of the Cheney Energy Task force....

If Bush and McCain weren''t doing a political dance and really wanted to lower prices, they would be calling for a draw-down from the strategic reserve.

That would really affect prices in the short term.

Why aren''t they calling for that? Because that would be real money out of the pockets of their benefactors.

So we get this dog and pony show instead.....

[smurfcrusher]

I wonder if McBush pronounces nuclear "nukeyaler" like the idiot president.

"I plan to harness the awesome power of the nukeyalus!! Take that, oil sheiks!"

[questionnews]

Europe gets 30% of thier electricity from nuclear power plants. We have to stop the Europeans from imposing thier energy policies upon the USA. Down with non-air polluting energy sources!!!!

[broadwayphi]

Wait, I thought he just wanted to bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran?

Now we, too, shall have that "Healthy McCain Glow"?

Thanks.

My friend.

[starleo146]

One moment he is for the next he is against. Against drilling offshore, now he is for it, and they called Kerry a flip flopper. Get a grip Mc Bush you are for whom ever is listening at the time, and tomorrow another audience you are against. You also say you and Bush are far apart, guess what he came out for a release of the ofshore ban. YOU ARE ALIKE MCBUSH

[gkc99]

More nukes--more plutonium.

Be the first kid on your block to have some!

[k72360]

Ah, heck, McCain''s a man''s man. He eats spent nuclear fuel rods for breakfast. I''m sure he''s willing to put a nuclear reactor right on his own ranch property (or is it Cindy''s ranch?). Cancer doesn''t bother him. He''s already had one tumor. What''s to worry about another two, three or four tumors in order to help out his energy pals? Hey, he can always put those spent fuel rods in those empty holes he digs in the ocean looking for oil. He''s such an environmentalist. He''s so green that he''s turning brown.

[omaar-101]

OK You Mccain Lovers, Volunteer to have Nuclear Power Plants in or around your Neighborhoods, or live with the knowledge, that your neighborhood will be a Nuclear War target, if World War 3 occurs !!!


Not to mention your Offspring being born with 2 Heads and Your Families being Plagued with Brain Cancer or Various forms of Cancer !!

By all means.....Vote McCain

[noloyalisti]

Another brilliant idea from the war-mongering McBush. His lack of understanding of the simplest concepts is unbelievable. Maybe in that sense he is a good representative of the followers who have their story and are sticking to it. His reasoning is so infantile and ignorant, it is scary to think this guy could even be considered for pResident. Bush on steroids but senile. Wow!!!!!!