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9. In a nutshell...

Thu Oct 18, 2018, 11:52 AM

Oct 2018

...the reason that gas prices are low is because every damn living thing on the planet is required, without consent, to bear the external cost.

It is, by comparison, not true that the external costs of nuclear power even remotely approximate the external costs of natural gas.

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US nuclear power: The vanishing low-carbon wedge [View all] NeoGreen Oct 2018 OP

What a surprise! NNadir Oct 2018 #1

What is not surprising (in the least)... NeoGreen Oct 2018 #2

Who from this article are antinuke? defacto7 Oct 2018 #3

That was my point... NeoGreen Oct 2018 #5

Well, I would certainly disagree with your contention in this post. NNadir Oct 2018 #4

Nice Gish Gallop... NeoGreen Oct 2018 #6

Uninteresting mindless and typical regurgitation of an... NNadir Oct 2018 #7

Huh? defacto7 Oct 2018 #8

In a nutshell... defacto7 Oct 2018 #9

Cheap natural gas has been killing off most types of power generation Calculating Oct 2018 #10