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nationalize the fed

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2. Rocks and glass houses
Sat Sep 19, 2015, 08:57 PM
Sep 2015

make a mess

Obama Energy Official: Nuclear Plants Essential To Our Carbon Reduction Goals

...Then, last week, a top Administration energy official swept in to clear up the matter. Yes, the Administration supports nuclear power—and it thinks that the growing list of nuclear power plants being shut down or slated for shutdown is a serious climate-change threat.

...Enter Peter Lyons, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) assistant secretary for nuclear energy. Lyons, a former Nuclear Regulatory Commission member and science advisor to former Senator Pete Domenici, spoke up about the Administration’s views on nuclear power at the Platts 10th Annual Nuclear Energy Conference in Washington, D.C. last week.

And he did not hold back. He said he was gravely concerned that the loss of existing healthy nuclear plants will cost us dearly in terms of increased carbon emissions...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelkrancer/2014/02/12/obama-energy-official-nuclear-plants-essential-to-our-carbon-reduction-goals/

Obama = more fracking and more nuclear plants. But bash Christie, why not. This country is a bad joke.

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