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The Price to Pay for Clean Energy is?

Post on January 28, 2010 by 5 Comments »

Is the price to pay for more clean energy more dirty energy? So the President appeared to signal in his State of the Union address last night.

The President called nuclear energy potentially ‘clean’ and called for building ‘safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country.’ He called for ‘tough decisions’ to enable more off-shore drilling for oil and gas and greater investment in ‘clean’ coal.

Then he said this:

And, yes, it means passing a comprehensive energy and climate bill with incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America.
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Even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy efficiency and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future, because the nation that leads the clean-energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy, and American must be that nation.

It would appear the Kerry-Lieberman-Graham December 2009 letter to the President is the jumping off point for Senate negotiations.

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  1. Rob Schofield
    January 28, 2010 at 3:42 pm

    Sort of like having to “destroy the village in order to save it.”

  2. James
    January 28, 2010 at 8:30 pm

    When he said “clean coal” I almost gagged. Especially right after the nuclear card.

    This was my big disappointment in the speech, though I thought “It’s about time” when he started talking green energy manufacturing. We’ve been asleep at that switch for a reeeeeeally long time.

  3. IBXer
    January 29, 2010 at 9:58 am

    You guys are always talking about being more like Europe… well that means going nuclear.

  4. Casey Verdant
    January 29, 2010 at 8:40 pm

    Strong commitments from Obama in his State of the Union address: firm support for green jobs and nuclear power and a push for the Senate Climate Bill. It will be interesting to see what solutions the panel finds for the hazardous waste generated by the $54-billion-nuclear reactors and how quickly tax incentives generate green jobs and whether Congress passes their Climate Bill.

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  5. Hugh Haskell
    January 31, 2010 at 12:14 am

    What was even more sickening was the thunderous applause that comment brought from both sides of the aisle. I was watching the speech in my living room and when he said that, I jumped up and yelled at the TV–I felt just like the SC Congressman who yelled “you lie” during his pseudo-SOU speech last year.

    He talked about “clean” energy but only mentioned the dirty varieties. What ever happened to wind & solar? Are we in for the same treatment for those as Reagan gave to solar panels on the White House?

    I wish someone would tell me what it is about nuclear power that gets people so emotionally involved with it. I may be one of the dumbest ways to boil water that has ever existed. Talk about splitting a pea with a sledgehammer . . .