San Onofre, fixable for free, will now cost CA ratepayers $13.6 BILLION to replace

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7. While Eco-Terrorist may see this as a Victory

Once the 20 some odd LNG export facilities that have applied for permits are completed and come on line, the availability of cheap Natural Gas which powers a MAJORITY of Electrical Generation Facilities on the West Coast becomes Scarce we will see Electricity Rate INCREASES of the Magnitude Enron Market Manipulators could only have dreamed of.

While the implied hazards of Nuclear Power are real and always possible, they will pale in comparison to the very REAL Deaths of fixed income elderly and low income impoverished people who die in heat waves and cold snaps through lack of affordable energy. These will be Very Real Numbers totaling into the 100s if not 1000s annually directly attributed to the high cost of Electricity. Far more then anyone could possibly attribute to Nuclear Energy.

Before you go clamoring we can fix this with solar ....

It would be possible to place Excise Taxes on all the LNG being shipped to China and Europe and use the revenues to subsidize Solar installations. How ever when was the last time Washington did any thing to benefit ordinary working class citizens when corporations stood to make Windfall Profits