Hmmm....

The GOP deposits must have been tardy at Mr. Friedman's secret offshore bank accounts.

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*news
*lies (or the sorta-debunking of)

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So what's wrong with IBM Selectric typewriters, Mr. Friedman?

>> ^brycewi19:
So what's wrong with IBM Selectric typewriters, Mr. Friedman?


they can't browse the intarwebz

I haven't actually heard a single "drill, drill, drill" person with the notion that it is going to solve our energy problem by itself. That's obvious, the math on that is simple and this guy is building up a strawman. All I've heard, from people like Kudlow and his ilk, is that the act of freeing it up will cause the market price to decline in the short-term (speculators price in what they think the future is going to be), thereby allowing some sort of reprieve for the transition that this guy is praying for to be less painful. And surely, the democrats on this forum can't use the ten year argument without burying their head in the sand: there was a vote ten years ago to do this very thing and they all shot it down. They used the same "it's too far away" argument back then. So... I guess now is too far away.

The real problem is the the ignorant opposition to nuclear in this country, and the extent to which we're already broke and unable to fund such massive infrastructure changes without further extensions of credit from producer nations that probably are going to pull the plug on the U.S. bond market when they wake up.

Before you rate me down, I'm not defending anyone. I think the Democrats are idiots and the neo-cons are insincere sacks of crap that will lie to get elected and then do the opposite. I'm libertarian who doesn't believe the government should be subsidizing or blocking domestic resources in any way, shape, or form. The market will determine the best product as it has in the past. When oil gets expensive, it incentivizes new forms of energy. And of course, nuclear has been the most efficient source of energy for thirty years, but it got NIMBYed to death to put us in this position by fearmongering radical environmentalists while France is now 80%. Meanwhile, wind costs 10x and solar 25x per BTU relative to nuclear and millions have died or are dying from biofuel subsidies on food crops and oil resource wars. Ugh.

>> ^BansheeX:The real problem is the the ignorant opposition to nuclear in this country....


There's no ignorance about it: nuclear is dirty and the people that own and run the plants are cheap.

Nuclear is more money for a special interest cabal that doesn't give a damn about anything but their own profits.

Solar, wind, geothermal - that's where we need more development.