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CarGar – Anyway (no s.)
legion- while he may not have been a proponent, Obama is a pragmatist. His preference is not for nuclear but he never siad he would not consider it. I think its interesting that he is the one to actually do something about it- Bush and his friends were focused on oil, coal and natural gas. Not on real energy independence or clean air. So it took a Democrat to actually act. But we certainly agree on the need for weaning ourselves off of mideast oil and better, cleaner, cheaper fuel alternatives.
“CGar, apply lipstick and kiss behinds”
Not into cross-dressing, m4l. Prefer to do it without the lipstick.
“MM is too elitist to discuss cats on the OT”
She never seems to add much to “raunch hour” either.
mopar, cant slap too many “I told you so” on you when I’m STILL knuckle-dragging the renov at the crown heights place. worst yet, wife is asking to renov current pad if we don’t buy a place soon.
CGar- i would help with the cats discussion but arkady and I are the only 2 keeping up our part of the bargain. Cobble is off, snappy and THL dealing with family matters and MM is too elitist to discuss cats on the OT. 🙂 I have to duck now.
bxgrl,
here’s President Obama on nuclear energy in 2007;
“I am not a nuclear energy proponent”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R52J2D5QQU
to be sure, his was a cautious approach, favoring solar, wind and biofuels, but the technology has been around for decades and needs to be considered strongly,
I guess it has been since he just signed on for a plant in Georgia.
donatella,
we need jobs, infrastructure upgrades sounds like a great way to spend money instead of all the pork being served up by the stimulus plan.
the chevy Volt is coming out this year I believe, a real powered electric car. The company’s future depends on it’s success. how about a tax incentive for that instead of cash for clunkers or electric golf carts.
biofuels are not practical since they take our food source and use it as energy. That can’t be good.
Solar is hugely important, but they need to make it much more economical, it still takes about 10-30 grand out of pocket to retrofit a house for solar. Bring it down to 5k and watch how many people sign on. I know I would.
It won’t happen overnight, but it can certainly be done and it would rid us of all these middle east headaches once and for all.
Thanks Arkady!
CMU, one big problem is we already have a vast amount of sprawl so building public transit to serve it is difficult.
But I am sure if we tear down the burbs and build anew, our economy will perk up.