Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Harry Reid's energy policy
Via Drudge, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid:
"Coal makes us sick, oil makes us sick..."
Friendly reminder that Reid also actively opposes (it's "never going to open") the long-delayed nuclear waste disposal facility at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the only answer this country has to the waste issue, which is in turn the biggest real objection to nuclear power.
The leader of the majority of the world's greatest deliberative body objects to power from oil, coal, and nuclear fission. He did not complain about natural gas, but that is a hydrocarbon from under the earth as well, so let's assume he objects to that as well. I bet he is opposed to more dams, too.
Harry Reid is in favor of his own power, but against actual power.
14 Comments:
By 
JPMcT, at
Tue Jul 01, 06:45:00 AM:
It's stunning that the blatant opposition of the Democratic majority to any coherent energy policy is not met with public outrage to the point of demanding recall. Have we as a society reached a point of collective stupidity that we cant demand some minimum level of competence from our Congress? The Dems decry "War For Oil" when that is EXACTLY what we need!
By 
, at
Tue Jul 01, 07:09:00 AM:
When we most need leadership from the Congress, we see that the idea of leadership has been replaced by partisan political vision or 'inside operators' whose sole purpose is enrichment of self or supporters.
By Dan Kauffman, at
Tue Jul 01, 07:55:00 AM:
One of the new rote chants from the Left it
We are addicted to Oil!
Yep, we are, and I myself am also addicted to Food and I have yet to find a viable alernative to Oxygen
By , at
Tue Jul 01, 08:28:00 AM:
The only power sources Reid appears to like are solar and wind, both of which:
1) Are enormously expensive per megawatt, both in capital and operating costs.
2) Require vast tracts of land. Apparently, humans living on more land is evil ("sprawl"), but defacing our landscape with windmills and solar panels is A-OK.
3) Are unreliable. You have to build 4-5x excess capacity in order to have a prayer of generating rated power.
By , at
Tue Jul 01, 08:51:00 AM:
When you see the utter dunces that run Congress - all of them truly appalling dolts - you wonder why any sentient individual views our legislative branch as anything other then a midly diverting clown show.
By , at
Tue Jul 01, 09:32:00 AM:
I am reminded of a Mad magazine cartoon from the 1970's where a hostess offers a guest some roast beef. "Oh, no", she replies "I don't eat meat. I couldn't hurt an animal". So the hostess offers her a plate of vegetables, "Oh, not for me, plants have feeling too". This of course, leaves the hostess with a very perplexed look on her face.
The new Luddites like Harry Reid can't comprehend the wisdom contained in a 40 year old comic book.
By Cardinalpark, at
Tue Jul 01, 10:07:00 AM:
Coal and oil make me happy.
Reid makes me sick.
By , at
Tue Jul 01, 11:29:00 AM:
I think the bigger problem here in modern day, 21st century America, is the notion that we have to have the "politicians" arbitrate and "solve" this problem.
This is a problem of the marketplace, of supply and demand. Production and consumption of a valuable commodity (oil) and the technology to use it efficiently.
But this illustrates how far we have fallen from the notion of a "free market", and now are sliding down the slippery slope to the "Oriental Mode of Production", meaning that we have to get permission from the various mandarins in power to do anything close to being productive.
This is the shape of things to come. If the fate of the Republic is in the decisive hands of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, well.....
-David
By El Jefe Maximo, at
Tue Jul 01, 04:40:00 PM:
The last sentence of your post sums up the modern Democrats perfectly.
By , at
Tue Jul 01, 08:14:00 PM:
Harry Reid has +9 retard strength playing D&D
By , at
Tue Jul 01, 09:42:00 PM:
Yucca Mountain is a government solution to a government created problem. When the federal government banned reprocessing spent nuclear fuel in the USA under the leadership of President Carter, they created the mass of spent fuel that is currently stored at the nuclear power plants.
That nuclear fuel can be safely reprocessed to remove the harmful radioactive material and the remaining useful fuel can be run through the reactor again. The current system uses a small fraction of the energy in the fuel rods and then throws them away. Recycling the fuel rods eliminates the need to store vast amounts of radioactive material. The harmful material can be burned in reactors designed for the purpose of rendering the waste safe.
It is hard to understand how the elected leaders of this country can stand in the way of progress. Historically there have always been people that fought against new technology. We have reached a time were those people are in control of the government to the point where they are only prepared to accept things that serve their own personal interest or the special interest they serve. The general welfare of the majority of the population is not on their agenda at all.
By , at
Wed Jul 02, 02:28:00 AM:
I've got an uncle who works for the Interior Department and we got started on talking about energy policy, Yucca mountain in particular. At the mention of "Yucca moun..," he suddenly spat, clasped his hand in a fist (way out of character), and said "It makes me f*ucking furious. We [Department of the Interior] are shelling out a billion dollars a year to the energy companies, because we [the gov't] made them contribute money to the site's construction cost, so now it sits idle..."
A gov't created problem, a gov't created solution, yet alas, another gov't problem.
*Reaches for my Lipitor*
By , at
Thu Jul 03, 01:12:00 AM:
Although we get no new sources of energy from the government, we have received about 50 million legal immigrants and illegal aliens over the last 30 years or so. Why no one in Washington stopped to think what that would do to the demand for energy we will never know. We do know that the Republicans will blame the Democrats and the Democrats will blame the Republicans.
By , at
Sun Jul 06, 11:46:00 PM:
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Dear Harry, show us some real leadership. Stop using your government supplied transportation and walk to all your destinations or maybe you can get a wild donkey from the Grand Canyon and feed it the grass growing in the many parks of Washington (district of corruption). Save that jet fuel that transports you back and forth from Nevada to Washington and ride that donkey. You could put your staff on donkeys and being the Demo majority leader, you could talk your Demo colleagues to ride donkeys to and from their office to their homes. Think of all the fossil fuel you and your colleagues could save Harry. The donkey dung would fertilize the parks and grow better stands of grass and the donkeys would stop those awful lawnmowers from creating noxious fumes. Read a good book such as “the war against nuclear power” by Eric Skousen. The book is over 30 years old but the scientific facts contained therein will make you ask some intelligent questions i.e. Why did we let the Sierra Club scare us out of the cleanest, safest, cheapest fuel source ever available? Why did we allow the EPA to destroy many of our opportunities to become less dependent on petroleum and coal? Harry, don’t miss this opportunity to grandstand the ideas of the Democratic party from the back of a good donkey.
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