GOP Energy Panel - You Were Warned

Happened on a GOP senate panel on energy issues today on C-SPAN2. Drill in ANWR and offshore, more nukes, more shale oil, more coal, yada yada. Special bit on the plight of fertilizer makers in the USA. Nada on renewables from what I recall.

Cut and past this link into RealPlayer to view the whole thing. The good nuke stuff starts at about 1:14 or so with some serious sucking up by the nuclear industry lobbyist to Sen. Nukes-R-Us from Arizona (no, not that one - the other one).

Senate Republican Conference Energy Forum (May 16, 2008)
rtsp://video1.c-span.org/project/energy/energy051608_gop.rm

GOP Energy Panel - You Were Warned

Happened on a GOP senate panel on energy issues today on C-SPAN2. Drill in ANWR and offshore, more nukes, more shale oil, more coal, yada yada. Special bit on the plight of fertilizer makers in the USA. Nada on renewables from what I recall.

Cut and past this link into RealPlayer to view the whole thing. The good nuke stuff starts at about 1:14 or so with some serious sucking up by the nuclear industry lobbyist to Sen. Nukes-R-Us from Arizona (no, not that one - the other one).

Senate Republican Conference Energy Forum (May 16, 2008)
rtsp://video1.c-span.org/project/energy/energy051608_gop.rm

Jerry Brown Has Teh Stupid, Arnold Shuns Other N-Word

Fun stuff in Cal-E-Fornia. Governor Moonbeam continues to go south as he ages politically. Conversely Governor Arrnold has once again re-evaluated his initial public position for one more in-line with the politics of the state. Maybe the nurse's union sent him another message. Hadn't though of this before but temporary nuclear dry cask storage units do have a lot in common with temporary human wet storage units (aka Porta-Potties).


UCI Thinks Big; DeVore Gets Power Boost from Brown - Orange County Business Journal - 19 May 08

"Irvine Assemblyman Chuck DeVore’s crusade to repeal California’s 32-year ban on nuke-plant construction has so far been short-circuited by Democrat lawmakers and anti-nuke activists [and public opinion which is why he pulled the initiative drive to repeal the ban - which isn't a ban a such but does require permanent waste storage before building more plants - kind of like requiring sewers to go with houses]. But suddenly he’s getting juice from unlikely sources."

"Moreover, he drew encouragement from a passing remark by none other than Jerry Brown. During a rambling, entertaining speech, the Democrat attorney general said, 'We gotta look at nuclear.' Brown was gone by the time DeVore got to the podium, but DeVore seized on the comment, noting the irony that it was Brown who as governor in 1976 signed the nuclear-plant ban. He quipped that Californians love to recycle and may recycle Brown back into the governor’s office.

Earlier this year, current Gov. Arnold said, 'I think nuclear power has a great future.' But Schwarzenegger avoided the topic in his 10-minute address at the conference. He mentioned 'solar' five times, 'renewables' three times and 'body building' once, but never uttered the N-word."

Jerry Brown Has Teh Stupid, Arnold Shuns Other N-Word

Fun stuff in Cal-E-Fornia. Governor Moonbeam continues to go south as he ages politically. Conversely Governor Arrnold has once again re-evaluated his initial public position for one more in-line with the politics of the state. Maybe the nurse's union sent him another message. Hadn't though of this before but temporary nuclear dry cask storage units do have a lot in common with temporary human wet storage units (aka Porta-Potties).


UCI Thinks Big; DeVore Gets Power Boost from Brown - Orange County Business Journal - 19 May 08

"Irvine Assemblyman Chuck DeVore’s crusade to repeal California’s 32-year ban on nuke-plant construction has so far been short-circuited by Democrat lawmakers and anti-nuke activists [and public opinion which is why he pulled the initiative drive to repeal the ban - which isn't a ban a such but does require permanent waste storage before building more plants - kind of like requiring sewers to go with houses]. But suddenly he’s getting juice from unlikely sources."

"Moreover, he drew encouragement from a passing remark by none other than Jerry Brown. During a rambling, entertaining speech, the Democrat attorney general said, 'We gotta look at nuclear.' Brown was gone by the time DeVore got to the podium, but DeVore seized on the comment, noting the irony that it was Brown who as governor in 1976 signed the nuclear-plant ban. He quipped that Californians love to recycle and may recycle Brown back into the governor’s office.

Earlier this year, current Gov. Arnold said, 'I think nuclear power has a great future.' But Schwarzenegger avoided the topic in his 10-minute address at the conference. He mentioned 'solar' five times, 'renewables' three times and 'body building' once, but never uttered the N-word."