‘This is important, notice Wisconsin with just 4 nuclear power plants powers 25% of the state, or Minnesota with 3 plants powers 25% of the state. That’s just 3 plants! McCain is planning on building 48 new nuclear plants, which would almost double the number in the US. That may increase the power in Wisconsin to 50%. Imagine how much money we save. McCain also realizes that with nuclear plants, it’s easy to create hydrogen for fuel cells in cars. Imagine the billions we would save just from doubling the nuclear power, that goes back into our economy. Obama is against nuclear plants all together, which is mind blowing to me. McCain has this really though out.’
So where does he plan on storing all this nuclear waste? Or is that question ignored all together on the Republican side of things?
The Yucca Mountain facility will cost more than $90 billion before all is said and done. And that is nothing compared to what would be needed for storage for all those plants. It’s funny when it comes to building Nuclear power plants the actually storing of the waste is never factored into the monetary equation. Don’t forget the cost of guarding all that waste from human error or from terrorist activity. Nuclear waste is simply burdening future generations with problems that we have now.
There are safe and true clean ways of fueling America. You can generate clean power with solar. Cars can be a combination of electric/gas hybrids. Chevrolet is releasing one of these is 2010. ( http://www.chevrolet.com/electriccar/ )The first 40 miles you drive every day will produce no emissions and use no petrol. Now imagine what you could do if private industry and the government actually invested in this technology. Investing in clean energy would not burden future generations and would save the environment . Seems more logical to me than McCains approach. To be honest even Obama is not progressive enough but he does have to satisfy all the voters who want lower gas prices now with offshore drilling promises and short term solutions.