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Interest in alternative energy is growing

Nothingis hAPPENING WITH OIL SHALE BECAUSE THE DEMS PUT A MORATORIUM ON IT, AND THERE IS NO REFINERY FOR IT.

Do you own oil shale property in eastern Utah? My family has for 4 generations. We stand to benefit from oil shale development. But deveolping our oil shale now would be an economic and evironmental disaster. Leave it to George Bush to come up with another useless solution. Thank goodness for the Dems moritoium.

NOTHING IS HAPPENING WITH OIL SHALE BECAUSE, OH, WAIT A SEC...I beg your pardon, I seem to be shouting. That's better. Oil shale is not moving forward because it is intrinsically expensive, in terms of energy (read; coal-fired power plants to generate electricity), water, and dollars.
As we say in the Uintah Basin; "Oil shale has a great future! And it always will have!"

The standard of living (highest in the world) in the US depends on cheap energy. Cheap energy built the greatest country on earth. Obama and other liberals say the conservation is the answer. It's only part of the answer. The other part is increased supply, as China and India will take more and more of the available energy. If we want to maintain our standard of living (the envy of the world) we must increase our own production. It takes 10 years to get anything new online. We better get busy NOW. If not...as some have said...before 2050 we will be a poor 3rd world country with no ability to dictate our own future. That is not acceptable!

You are right, Les. But, there is no reason to continue acting like snails in developing new energy when we know how to do these things.

America pioneered Nuclear Power. Nuclear power is the KEY to maintaining a first-world standard of living in the era of post-peak oil. Also, nuclear has so many advantages to give us options from vagAaries in the the natural world if global warming changes all the face cards.

It is time to make reasonable changes to the law to expedite new nuclear plants.

We can start building the first five plants in three or four years and then five more plants at six month intervals till we have built up our energy production. This is war!

The chicken-littles and the fear-mongers who have nothing to peddle but fear itself, should be ignored while we act rationally. Saving the planet and big chunks of nature will absolutely require us traveling a steep learning curve.

We probably need some major town-hall debates and information sharing opportunities to start.

No, the Governor's climate-change initiative isn't the answer. That program started too deeply in the rut dug by "old environmentalism". It had too many chicken-littles, not enough engineers.