Tell Senate Now: Stop $7 Billion in New Nuke Loans. No More Taxpayer Bailouts for Giant Corporations

[sasha031]

I just got this in the mail...
The House has passed a Continuing Resolution that includes $7 Billion in new taxpayer loans for nuclear reactor construction, but the Senate has not acted on this yet. So there is still time to write and call your Senators! Send them a message below; when you do their phone numbers will appear--we encourage you to call them as well. The vote could happen as early as Friday, December 10, so act now, and help spread the word.
Background information (from Dec. 7, 2010):

The Obama Administration is asking Congress, as one of its last acts during this lame duck session, to sneak in $9 Billion for taxpayer loans for new nuclear reactor construction as part of its upcoming "Continuing Resolution" to keep the government funded.

This is at least the fourth attempt this year to increase the money available for new reactor "loan guarantees" (actually, these would be loans from the government's Federal Financing Bank)--despite the fact that the Department of Energy has not been able to spend the money it currently has available for such loans--it still has $10.2 Billion in unspent money available!

This money would go to some of the world's largest corporations; companies like Electricite de France, Toshiba directly, Westinghouse (owned by Toshiba), General Electric, and so on. When will Congress learn that taxpayers don't want to subsidize giant corporations, especially when they want to build dirty and dangerous new nuclear reactors in our communities!

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4923

[msongs]

1. as if prostitutes are ever gonna do something bad to their pimps lol nt

[midnight]

2. This should be common sense.... We can't afford to

keep an old economy of ammunitions and oil going....

[sasha031]

4. there's a link where you can tell your Senators to oppose it

[apocalypsehow]

3. No thanks - Nuclear energy is the Greenest technology on the planet, hands down.

Those opposed to it cannot honestly call themselves "environmentalists" - period.

I will, in fact, be doing the exact opposite of the suggestion in your OP: I will be contacting my Senators to urge them to vote for this worthy appropriation.

[Travis_0004]

5. x2 (and an UnRec)

We are not going to get energy independence without building some nuclear plants. Or the alternative is more drilling in Alaska, and the Gulf.

Plus, this is not a bailout, its a loan. IF the government can loan some money, and have it paid back with interest, I see nothing wrong with that. If it was up to me, I would build 20 new nuclear power plants, along with solar wind, geothhermal.