In case you are wondering…..Hell is in the process of freezing over!
That is the buzz word for Washington….Dems say they are trying to form an alliance with the Right….the Right accuses the Dems of NOT working in a bi-partisan way…..bi-partisanship….will it ever change?
Well, a quick answer is yes…it will…..I know…How can I say that with all the polarization in the nation’s capital?
Hebert and Cappiello of the AP have reported:
Senators trying to craft bipartisan climate legislation offered a revised proposal Thursday that would add incentives for building nuclear power plants and open the way for expanded oil and gas drilling off the nation’s coastlines in hopes of attracting wider support.The new framework for a Senate climate bill would ease back requirements for early reductions of greenhouse gases. It calls for cuts in the range of 17 percent by 2020, instead of 20 percent, similar to reductions already approved by the House and what Obama will call for at an international climate conference in Copenhagen.
The senators said the bill would include tax credits and a substantial increase in government loan guarantees for building nuclear reactors as well as some streamlining of the reactor permitting process. Currently loan guarantees for new reactors — which can cost $9 billion or more each — are limited to a total of $18.5 billion, and even those have yet to be awarded by the Energy Department.
The framework provided only a broad view of what a compromise bill would include with details to emerge early next year. But it reflects a widespread view that the climate bill that advanced out of committee in early November would need to be significantly revised for any hope of getting bipartisan support from at least 60 senators.
Are the Dems this desperate that they will water down an important bill just so they can say it was bi-partisan? Or is it just an attempt to make the delegates think that the Washington crowd is serious about climate change? Once again there are the ever present tax breaks….that seems to be the standard answer for all the country’s problems….tax breaks and the sun will shine again……personally, I think all this is pure manure!
A new path to bi-partisanship? Why not? The majority has been a limp penis so far….why take your Viagra now? God forbid that the people doing the most damage to the climate should have to pay to repair it….hell that would be down right Un-American!
The difficulty is that Democrats are more subject to pressure from the “green lobby” and THEY want black to be both white and black at the same time.
Therefore the Democrats will need the Republicans on their side if they want support for nuclear power, which (where there is no prospect of a current better local solution) is CLEARLY the way forward for power generation until something better is developed.
Sad part is that to build new nuke plants would take just as much cash as a solar plant….but the solar industry does not have the massive lobbyting groups….
Oh there are more pro-solar than pro-nuclear pressure groups and probably more money – which is part of what’s paying for and driving a lot of the climate change research!
However, an equivalent solar plant (with current technology) would be less flexible and less efficient. It will come in time and it does have it’s place even now.
But there are much better alternatives coming – part #5 might be going to mention some of this sort of thing… 😈
Was that a tease?….lol…..here in the US the pro nukes is stronger….because they have the giant power companies behind them…the pro-solar have little guys like me behund them…
PS: ALL taxes should be scrapped and only re-introduced when the annual budget is approved (in detail), or not, by ALL citizens…
Make the fuckers beg in the streets for money like they’d have us do! 😈
I can support that plan…..
You are talking about real participation by the people…that thought scares the living shit out politicians…..
Oh yes. Doesn’t it JUST? Ha, ha! Serve ’em right! 😈
The cool part is that there seems to be a growing demand for MORE say in the government…..politicians are still not concerned but they are looking over their shoulder……we can only hope…..