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4. So what? If he had authority, he would shut all nuclear plants.
Sat Aug 31, 2019, 08:28 AM
Aug 2019

The so called "low prices" associated with shale gas does not include the price that will be paid by all future generations.

These costs are known as "external costs" and the decision of our generation to completely and totally ignore them is, frankly, criminal.

Entergy's interests are not involved with human suffering, least of all the suffering of all future generations. It's interests are in short term profits.

What if Entergy were required to prove that dangerous natural gas waste needed to be contained forever without causing a single loss of life either in the imagination of dumb people or in reality? How much would natural gas cost then?

The reason that dangerous natural gas is alleged to be "cheap" is that no one is responsible to pay for the damage it does.

Sanders has openly stated that he wants to shut all American nuclear plants. The reality is, either we mine the hell out of the planet to dig up stuff for so called "renewable energy" junk or burn dangerous fossil fuels or live in the dark.

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