Nuclear Power could be a part of our future..

[rodeodance]

Tim Carpenter for PDA wrote:
> http://www.nukefree.org/petition

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> < PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS OF AMERICA >
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> Nuclear Power could be a part of our future...
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> ACT NOW!
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> Dear xxx,
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> If you read the article, “Sustainable Energy-Not Nuclear,” on PDA's homepage today, then you know that tomorrow, Monday October 22, the Senate will consider pushing nuclear energy into a great bill meant to begin, finally, serious federal investment in clean, sustainable energy.
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> Tomorrow, our friends, Graham Nash, Jackson Browne, and Bonnie Raitt will deliver a petition to Congress which asks the Senate to remove the nuclear industry loan guarantees from the pending energy bill. They need our help, right now!
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> Please sign the petition--NOW--and forward this to five friends.
> Tomorrow, call your senators and representatives (find them here) http://www.nukefree.org/petition

> and urge them to “REMOVE THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY LOAN
> GUARANTEES FROM THE PENDING ENERGY BILL.”
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> Thanks, in advance,
> Tim Carpenter
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> Progressive Democrats of America is a grassroots PAC that works both inside the Democratic Party and outside in movements for peace and justice. Our goal: Extend the victory of Nov. 2006 into a permanent, progressive majority. PDA's advisory board includes seven members of Congress and activist leaders such as Tom Hayden, Medea Benjamin, Cindy Sheehan and Rev. Lennox Yearwood. More info: http://pdamerica.org
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[greenman3610]

1. my reaction to loan guarantees for the nuclear industry

If you had an alcoholic brother in law whose been caught cheating
on your sister, and gone bankrupt 3 times, and still hadn't paid
you back that thousand bucks he borrowed 5 years ago,...

would you co-sign a loan for him?

[Vogon_Glory]

2. Sorry, I Won't Sign

Sorry, but I won't sign. As much as I think they'd be a good thing, I don't believe that renewable energy technologies like solar, wind, geothermal, etc. can replace both fossil fuel AND nuclear power generation.

I was one of many who quietly stood aside and let the anti-nuclear power zealots reshape the direction of the environmental movement's political agenda twenty-odd years ago. Since then, I've found out about acid rain, widespread mercury contamination, the hundreds of thousands of deaths from the "oil wars" as well as from the refining and consumption stages of the carbon fuel economy, man-made global warming, and had old lessons re-inforced about the ecological devastation caused by strip-mining and oil drilling.

The "no nukes!" cure for nuclear power generation is worse than having them.