WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to increase spending on the U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $5 billion over the next five years as part of its strategy to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually rid the world of them...
Yes, indeed, just like giving the bank$ters all the cash the Fed can print will keep them from playing your retirement at the casino.
But lest Bechtel and GE and all the other dogs of war run out of plutonium, Barry's pushing for domestic nukes, too.
The Obama administration moved vigorously on two fronts Friday to promote nuclear power, proposing a tripling of federal loan guarantees for new projects and appointing a high-level commission to study what to do with nuclear waste.
Administration officials confirmed that their 2011 federal budget request next week would raise potential loan guarantees for the projects to more than $54 billion, from $18.5 billion. A new Energy Department panel will examine a vastly expanded list of options for nuclear waste, including a new kind of nuclear reactor that would use some of it.
The current loan guarantees were provided in the 2005 energy act but have not been disbursed because of bureaucratic delays. The Energy Department has said it would start issuing those soon. Because the loan guarantees are supposed to cover 80 percent of construction costs, the current amount of $18.5 billion would cover only about three projects...
Meaning that $54 billion will cover about nine projects.
Yes indeed, Hope for a more effective Bu$h energy plan, and Change your definition of what having a pro-environment Earth-friendly administration really means. Better uses for nuclear waste as, one imagines, ammunition.
Or maybe as packaging for those sports energy drinks that look pretty radioactive already.
In any event, guess who's backing Barry on this one?
...The idea may have more support among Republicans than Democrats, but even opponents of nuclear power concede that the loan guarantees may be necessary to muster enough votes for the kind of measures that many environmentalists favor in a climate and energy bill, like firm national goals for renewable energy and a cap on carbon dioxide emissions...
Yes, even opponents concede they are just going to have to give up all resistance to the rapacious urges of the energy consortiums in order to make them do what they would pretty much have to eventually do anyway in order to keep from running out of fuels completely, poisoning the oceans with carbon dioxide, and returning the world to Mesozoic conditions.
Sounds like a great deal to me, Barry. I'm sure you'll make a bundle on it somewhere.
The more Barry postures to show his resistance to the Republicans and vice versa the more he moves in their direction.
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