You're repeating yourself....a sure sign of a neocon parrot. We were sending folks into the mines LONG before nuke power plants went online commercially over 30 years ago, you numbskull. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THE MANAGEMENTS HISTORICAL RECORD OF INDIFFERENCE TO MINERS SAFETY....as the numerous unheeded violations show.
If repeating yourself means you are a NEOCON parrot, what do your friends think of your new-found right wing affiliation? I bet that was a shocker to them! I don't understand your point about sending men into mines long before nuclear power. Of course we were... men have been poking around in underground caves for thousands of years. It's still just as unsafe as it ever was. My argument is, nuclear power replaces the need to go underground and mine coal for energy production, and is much safer. You'd think a progressive would understand advancement in technology...I guess that must be your NEOCON kicking in, huh?
Oh, there is a real good excuse for the management's historical indifference to miner safety... MONEY! Have you heard activist liberal nitwits lately? If management were forced to implement EVERY safety precaution liberal nitwits wanted, it would not be worth the trouble of mining coal, we'd have to abandon that as well as nuclear energy. Since people have kind of gotten used to electrical power, and we haven't built any new nuclear plants lately, we have to weigh the liberal pinhead safety issues with cost factor of implementing them... but again, nuclear power eliminates a lot of this, as it eliminates the need to mine for coal as much. It's just plain common sense.
MAYBE if corporate ass kissers like yourself got their way, Shoreham nuke power plant on Long Island, NY would have went on-line with faulty coolant pipes....folk like me who gave it the hard eye discovered that and other major problems, and with a little hard work got it shut down.
Don't know anything about this plant, but the important thing is, it didn't go online with faulty coolant pipes, something prevented that from happening. Stuff like this is the reason we've been dealing with nuclear energy for over 60 years, and haven't had a single death from the production of it. It's like space travel (only safer)... we go into space all the time now, but it's relatively safe as long as we follow our guidelines. We have developed a safety system and for the most part, it works. Nuclear energy is the highest regulated and most safety-scrutinized form of energy, period! And I am glad you are proud of your efforts in ensuring the US has not opened a nuclear power facility in 30 years, thanks to you, we are 30 years behind the rest of the world, while we continue to endure untold numbers of deaths and diseases from underground coal mining, and unprecedented ecological damage from oil drilling. Nuclear energy would have certainly eliminated the need for some of this, don't you imagine?
Maybe if conservative idealogues like you got their way, the various documented cases of contamination to surrounding wildlife would be DOUBLE now, as well as the cases of various cancer spikes to populations surrounding nuke plants. And MAYBE if insipidly stubborn folk like yourself got their way, we'd have DOUBLE the amount of nuke waste to contend with.
Well first of all, there has been no evidence to link cancer spikes or wildlife damage to nuclear power facilities operating in the United States. Manipulating data to make your case, is a pointless venture, as the Warmers recently discovered. Any data can be made to indicate anything, when it is distorted for that purpose, you should know that. As for nuclear waste, we have a method of disposing it, and this seems to work for the rest of the world, including Iran... I don't see you protesting their nuclear waste. Or France!
Maybe if the existing energy industries didn't fight environmental emissions regulations tooth and nail, and actually took measures to PROTECT the workers like they should, and didn't do a propaganda number to INCORPORATE wind and solar, then we could actually start to decommission all those nuke plants who are PAST 30 years and subsequent operating peak sans structural refit. But hey, you just keep ignoring all this and parrot yourself silly with pro-nuke mantras.
No, IF they didn't fight tooth and nail against the ENVIRO-WACKOS, your average power bill would be about $6,000.00 a month. That is what it would take to implement the regulations/safety precautions/limitations/restrictions on the industry as a whole, if all the environmental activist groups had their way. Many areas wouldn't be able to get power, even at the exorbitant prices.
FYI: Amadinejhad doesn't have final say...the mullahs do. THEY were the ones who were repeatedly asking the Shrub for a sit down, and got refuffed with bush-wah. If the Shrub didn't give the little jerk the PR keys to the kingdom, he would have been voted out, as he didn't deliver on any of his financial promises to his people.
Uhm, do the Mullahs respect Israel's right to exist, and not believe they must be wiped from the planet to make way for the 12th Imam, and return of Allah? Do the Mullahs, (who are the authority figures over the radical Islamic beliefs of Amadinejhad), share some sort of secret benevolent view toward Jews? This is news to me! Tell me more!
Now your guy has had 16 months to "sit down" with Amadinejhad, to reason with him, to do what Bush failed to do.... what are the results? Has Obama changed any hearts or minds? Doesn't seem like it to me, Iranians are poised to have a nuke or two by next year, and at this point, aside from a major military conflagration, nothing is going to stop them. At some point, don't you think you might stop sitting on your hands and blaming Bush? Maybe you're waiting for the mushroom cloud over Jerusalem, so you can shake your head and proclaim it such a tragedy and more blood on the hands of George W. Bush?
Your stupidity is almost outweighed by your dishonesty.
