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  • Just give up your federal school loans, and we will put the money toward the environment. NO???? Then shut the fuck up.

  • "Because off-shore drilling is safe." *BOOM* "WTF was that?"

  • omfg. zombies!

  • Questions to nuclear advocates on this thread: Have not the major designers of new plants obtained cooperation and approval from the NRC on their new safe designs? Why haven't private investors put their money on new nuclear power plants? There's plenty of money out there looking for a good return. Price-Anderson isn't enough government risk management for them?

  • @Timtrewyn NRC means shit as far as this White House is concerned and you know it. Why not copy the French. Years of electrical generation and no accidents yet.

  • @madisonelectronic A gentleman who has worked in a nuclear power plant told me about NRC approved safe designs. He was very confident in them. I've never worked for the NRC or this White House, so I don't really know their details. I'm simply asking nuclear advocates to explain the lack of private, or even French, if you will, investment in new American power plants for the last 3 decades. They receive a significant subsidy in the Price-Anderson Act. Check it out.

  • The liberals have brainwashed them well

  • WOW still people who think AGW is real!

  • economically sustainable..... lollll then why ask for government subsidization

    logic ... liberals dont have it

  • These punks are "student leaders"? 50 years ago they would've been in special education at a retard school. This is what happens when libturds run the Marxist indoctrination camps that pass for an education system.

  • AGREE With Thunder Appeal!!! Couldn't have said it better.

  • I'm 21 years old, and I support nuclear energy. And i'm from a state that does not have any nuclear plants (Kentucky) but I would have them built in my back yard if I could. I was born after TMI and Chernobyl and that has allowed me to look at things objectively and not hysterically. Nuclear is the most safe, clean and affordable baseload carbon free energy in the world and we need more plants to be built. Especially in the US and Kentucky!

  • France has used nuclear power for many years and they have had no problems.

    What makes you young kids think the USA cannot

    have the same thing with a much more cleaner environment? Oil is not the solution. Coal is horrid. You cannot build enough dams and windmills to sustain growth.

    Nuclear power is the right thing and Obama

    finally has something good for the USA to

    get involved in. This means jobs.

  • Too bad Obama and other Dems have shut down the Yucca Mountain site... so I take his position as a shallow appeasement to the right.

  • @ axe863: I expect that they did that so they can quietly get started on plans for a spent fuel reprocessing plant. Because nuclear reprocessing reduces nuclear waste to a fraction and would provide thousands of more jobs. I still want yucca mountain opened, but it would be for what can be for the small amount that cant be recycled.

  • You know nothing about real life!

  • "Today we stock containers of waste because currently scientists don't know how to reduce or eliminate the toxicity, but maybe in 100 years perhaps scientists will."

    I propose a very simple solution to the nuclear waste problem, current reactors recycle the waste and further reduce it. In 100-200 years we will have constructed the first space elovator, this will allow us to dispose of the nuclear waste in space, and by then we will have advanced technology, enough to use a lot of solar power.

  • I know a lot of you college students are young idealists, and you want to participate in something bigger than yourselves and do what is right, I respect that, but I am college student too, and I choose to research the issues before making judgement.

    I challenge you to actually research nuclear power from an unbiased perspective. You talk like there are massive nuclear wastelands from nuclear waste, France gets 75% of its power from nuclear fission.

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  • ...unlike the *dirty*, *dangerous* jobs that generations before you endured to build the most blessed, strongest and most generous

    country in the history of the world?  We'd better *CHANGE* that in a hurry!

    Godless progressives: Behold this fresh crop of your young, indoctrinated earth-worshippers.

  • You're right--God hates the earth.

  • At lest I will have a job some day!!! This is what I have to compete against!!! LOL im going to be safe!!! Oh wait they will probably tax the shit out of me and blame my guns and my 4x4 truck and my Christmas tree and my shirt being tucked in and not a nice guy cuz i voted for a white guy! grow up!! Half of the guys there are only there to get in your pants any way lol!

  • Considering the whole sham of the "trickle-down" theory of finance(which has been a bipartisan agenda)--with the banks never intending to lend to Americans to start businesses--chances are that you'll be working for these kids in the future.lol

  • Talk is cheap, and God knows I have expensive taste. :)

  • You idiots deserve what your future is going to be like having to pay back the trillions in dollars the government has been printing. Good luck to you idiots. How's that hope and change working for you?

  • You people are absolutely brainless. As stupid as Obama is, even he knows that garbage won't work. He's just not gonna kill your imagination and his vote in the process.

  • retards at their finest!

  • @KeKLENKE

    These punks are the best argument I've seen yet for home schooling or privatising education and getting rid of public schools and "universal education" completely. They're also a great reason for reinstating the draft. Some trigger time killing mudscum in Iraq or Afghanistan will do them a world of good.

  • Nuclear is best. Obama hasent and never will live up to his promises. These liberal idiots need to take a look at the real world.

  • Let's see. We can't use nuclear power because of (egad!) radioactive waste. We can't use hydro, because it kills salmon. We can't put up wind turbines because endangered birds are killed by their blades, and neighbors don't like the noise they make. Solar works great if you're charging a car battery in Arizona, but it's useless everywhere else. Coal pollutes. Geothermal could pollute groundwater. Why don't these uneducated, liberal brats try to live without electricity for a day. Or try working.

  • @Audinos

    nice

  • Right now technology isn't up for powering this country on wind and solar. What we can start doing is lowering our oil dependency and one solution for that is nuclear power. The only way we could switch to solar and wind right now is if all you environmentalist bloggers got offline and stopped using so much power.

  • Shut uppppp. Y'all are stupid teens who think you know everything about the economy and the government, when in fact you know nothing. President Obama is trying everything he can. Give him some slack. It's not like he asked to be president during all this turmoil.

  • i think your the retarded teenager who honestly doesn't know jack shit. If you looked at president obama's bail out plans have done jack shit and have put the US in more red ink. Obama has lost more jobs than he's saved, hes allowed companies to be bailed out billions yet run a corrupt business model. and yeah he did ask to be president, hence the reason he ran for the presidency, while knowing about the economic uneasiness from the bush administration coming in

  • Actually he spent millions of dollars to campaign to be President, thats kinda asking to be president.

  • Retarded mother fuckers, nuclear energy is clean we know how to take care of the waste

  • Chris, you're suggesting that all forms of non-consumable energy are inefficient? Would you have us tear down all the dams as well?

  • Gaaaayyyy

  • Good luck getting a job from that windmill.

  • If the world were at peace, we could run it on solar, wind, geothermal, hydro, and other technologies. But they want to continue the military indistrial complex and fight various wars througout the world. To do that, you need nuclear energy, for your plants, factories, warships, warheads. It takes nuclear power to conduct war!

  • Go Nuclear!! How about you guys research a bit before making accusations. Nuclear is very efficient. One pellet of nuclear fuel can power a house for a year. Can solar/wind do that? Maybe, if it's sunny/windy that day.

  • Kids first should count How many kWt hr / yr they guzzle?

    Then Google up the numbers on cost efficiency of what they ask for. They won't.

    It's just extracurricular show to apply for college

  • Didn't they make this vidoe? Does that count?

  • talk is cheap...go do something

  • Gotta agree with craigers and ablcl22 here. Nuclear is extremely efficient and probably our best bet for energy in the future.

  • Nuclear energy is very efficient? S0 there wrong about that

  • These kids need to wake-up to the real world. Nuclear is the best way to go.

  • Nuclear energy is one of the most efficient and at the same time safest ways of getting energy. If handled correctly.

  • The answer to your question kids is BECAUSE HE IS A LIER! The man won't do anything that would hurt unions, his oil buddies, or his Chicago thugs friends.

  • @wbtaylor1 Other than transparencey on the health care ( which should be scrapped and rethought) what has he lied about ? he said he would send more troops to Afghan,create energy jobs and save some, jobs. And he has.

  • Are you kidding? I only have 500 characters. I can't list them all but I will list a few. He promised "no more earmarks" and every bill is stuffed with pork and earmark that is payoff to those who got him elected. He promised "no more corruption" but 38 of his closest advisers criminals or ties to radical organization. He promised "no more czars" but has created 41 NEW czars. The list goes on but I want to address your point about jobs. He has lost more than he has created & saved nothing.

  • all of these sources cost more to run efficiently than the current system. These renewable resources don't put out enough energy for the growing population. An investment in sustainable nuclear fusion or the conversion of co2 into solid carbon and o2 would be much more feasible solutions that to saturate our growing economy with bullshit energy sources like those proposed.

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  • Stunningly ignorant. They seem nice enough, but jeez, wake the eff up and stop drinking the kool-aid.

  • yes making more jobs for other people while eliminating current ones you guys have it all right.. (Not saying we shouldn't change to a more efficent energy source but this is just stupid)

  • Little socialist goose stepping fascists in training, I'll bet they just cant wait to get out in to the world to tell people what to do.

  • Looks like a bunch of spoiled brats whose mommy and daddy never said 'No' to 'precious.'

  • @ThunderAppeal

    If these punks are our future, no wonder our jobs are going to the gooks and dotheads. The best argument yet for homeschooling or privatising education and getting rid of public schools and "universal education" altogether, and for bringing back the draft- these punks should be on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan killing mudscum.

  • Shit hitheads like the douchebags in the video have been raised to believe that the government will cater to their ever whim.  They were raised that way because their parents raised them that way. They werent raised to learn how to be self-sufficient and do things like actually *earning* their health care. Instead they want government handouts. Yes, military service would be good for them, the government should fund the military *more* to take in shitheads like these kids.

  • Fuck Going Green !

  • Chevy power!!

  • Who are these stupid fucking kids? NUCLEAR ALL THE FUCKING WAY!

  • @dreadedcrow16

    They're what our public schools are crapping out and have been ever since we took God out of the classroom.

  • Wake the hell up kidlets, solar and wind power isn't cheap!

  • yeah seriously, if they think solar and wind power is going to be cheaper, they better wake the fuck up.

  • sad, nice kids. But, they are deluded if they think Obama and Socialists can reinvent USA economy. Government rarely solves any problems. Many of these kids will soon be in bread lines due to Obama's anti-business bias. Obama is essentially a Marxist egghead.

  • So I guess we are just going to turn off all power and stop driving and wait for the new clean stuff. The contry needs to keep moving in the time it takes to build these things. I work with wind energy and at this time it just can't do it. We need more time, if these things would be forced out now you would be in the dark about half of your day.

  • Naive liberals

  • everything you list is more expensive than oil and not reliable. So in your world you want to pay 4 times the cost for everything?

  • Wow, the young are really dumb.

    1) record number of young people did not show up.

    2) Of the young Obama voters that did show up, the top 18 reason would not have clean energy.

    3) Nuclear energy is the most efficient energy. Clean/dirty coal is also one of the cheapest. Not being oil free, we still need to sustain oil without relying on foreign soil. Off shore drilling is the obvious choice. Money is tight you go with what is cheap/efficient and available.

    You seem to be very misinformed.

  • and dont blam or ask da president about energy ask the fucking gas co's! Obamas to busy shoot'n hoops on da b-ball court boi

  • lol it takes time

  • fffffff

  • no one will help us, were all doomed for life by this asshole president

  • Damn, I bet everyone who gave my comments a thumbs down are die hard republicans lol. I'm an Independant. COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY, people. Our founding fathers were even against creating several parties..

  • Finally another Independent. We truly are the only ones who can get anything done, without taking sides. *sigh*

  • The problem with Obama and his crew, is that none of them have ever had to run a business, and now they think they can run the national treasury.

    This is why a business degree, and/or knowledge of high-level economics should be a requirement for all politicians.

    Also, Hadron Colliders FTW!

  • The only problem with Obama, is that he has already wasted all our money, so he is stupid enough to belive that he can help our country.

  • oh cool! one university, 1000 papers, 3 people, but only 3 suggestive phrases! serisouly, have you even read the other 999 pages? and remember this is ONE unit of one university science program, and that does NOT negate the theory, pretty much at all

  • eat shit and die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • the speakers on this computer are broken but just looking at the 1 X 1 inch preview shot of this video, i could tell that this was some pointy headed, fairytale bullshit.

    I thought i would hear the last of it when everyone found out that YES HE CANT do nor will do shit ... and that is a good thing anyway.

    double win for the right wing alright! :)

    and dont you liberals condemn each other like the rats u are, i will remember to hope you ALL die...(equally) lol

  • What a bunch of FOOLS!!!

    They think the most expencive sources of energy are the best.

  • by the way... there must not be any business or economics majors in this room. it is sad to see college students so misguided as to how an economy works

  • AMEN!!

  • are these people joking. they might as well have said this; "mr obama...... we are tired of driving our dirty cars and wasting billions on energy to keep our lights on. we propose that you give every american a unicorn to fly to work and hampsters running on there wheels to power our homes". wake the fuck up

  • All I have to say it "BEST POST EVER"!!!

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  • haha what was that not even a ? goodjob dumbass

  • suckish... gay.. hate the way u talk

  • cover your mouth with ur hand

    2. make a wish

    3.close ur hand(fist)

    4.hold ur hand at ur heart for 5 sec

    5.send this to 3 more vids

    6. tomorrow will b the best day ever

    it actually works

    money-u will find a wad of $200 in cash

    love- ur crush or lover will kiss u or ask u out

  • u FAIL! -.- no ones to hear that shit

  • .... that was not a question.

  • if a grenade went off in that room the world would be a better place

  • If your premise is correct about these methods being sustainable, why do you need government to handle it. You're young, bright and energetic. Go start a company in your garage (apple, google, etc.) develop a great product, make billions and then give half of it back to the government. Come on girl, don't rely on the imperial federal government. Get out there and make it happen!

  • China is pumping our oil out of the ground? I didn't know that. Where at? Texas? Alaska?

  • @greenthumbidiot

    Wow, you really are stupid.  I guess you are too stupid to know where the bulk of US oil is. you complete douche.

  • what a uninformed stupid bitch.

  • 1.take a deep breath

    2.think of someone u like

    3.press F10 5 times

    4.send this to 5 youtube videos

    5.look at your backround

  • 1.take a deep breath

    2.think of someone u like

    3.press F10 5 times

    4.send this to 5 youtube videos

    5.look at your backround

  • lol wind and solar energy cannot supply us with enough electricity, and don't forget it is unreliable, costly to build, and in the process of construction creates a lot of pollution, has to be replaced every few years. Right now nuclear is the only option, until better technology is available, which will be a long time from now.

  • The people in this video, as well as most of the people commenting, are complete idiots.

    Because a person took the time to type out "y'all" doesn't make his points any less valid. And this is not about Bush, who was not as bad as uninformed retards like to spout. This is about Obama; in particularly, hoe he screwed over yet another group of people. Even if that group is full of idiotic treehuggers.

  • lol at all the ultra libs who loved Obama are now starting to GASP question him. Something they would have never dreamed of going into the election. But just wait until 2012 comes around they will go back to worshiping him like a mosiah

  • Stupid liberals. Spoiled brats that don't know a damn thing.

  • Somewhere in Kenya, a Village is missing it's Idiot!

  • yeah make them solar panels that contain plastics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! meaning you gonna need that oil to produce those solar panel and the oil to make the heat to refine the aluminum to make the frames for those solar panels, coal to produce the electricity to pull the copper through the wire machine to make the wire necessary to make the generators. would you like me to continue. mean while you just tripled the co2 out put.

  • @ juggernautxtr

    You're right. Nearly everything is made of petroleum or uses it.

  • I agree with moodinator.

  • Yep y'all rallied and elected the idiot deal with it! Y'all are getting screwed and don't even care . Look at how much more debt he wants to give you!

  • Ya'll! Ya'll!

    Fuckin' hillbilly.

  • @wolfhartt ya cos the republicans would be doign so much better...tell me again...what party was bush?

  • nuclear is the cleanest most efficient source of power there is,if you could harness all the hot air and gasses coming out of obama,reid and pellosi and lying ass al gore you could probably run california...but if you want to keep living in tour air conditioned house and play xbox games and play with your computers and use your hair dryers and not live in a cave then you better get real...you can't power this nation with wind and solar,grow up and get a clue!!!

  • Thanks for the screaming. Almost gave me a heartattack.

    Good point though.

  • Oil rhetoric:

    ...is it rather curious that Ford is trying to hum the same tune on its own hybrid recall as the Prius?

    Hllbrtn?

  • Drilling, yes! Wind, hydro and solar, yes! Nuclear, YES! All of these things can get our country out of debt faster than we might think! If only it was put into play!

  • Depends on a number of factors what the output is. I've never been to a nuclear plant, but I have been to a coal and solar plant. I think the solar plant in hinkley put out something like 150 MW, and the coal plants that I have been to varied: 550MW and 2050MW. Depends on how many thermal cycles you have going on at one time, and in particular the # of turbines.

  • Well has any one else looked at how much ramping up needs to be done to sustain this glutinous country on green power?.... sorry but if you want to have the ability to post your youtube comments and tweet in your blog-o-sphear youll still require some alternatives.

  • Solar has it's merits, wind is a joke.

    Nuclear is the way to go. Doesn't France like this, and isn't it chic to do what the French do these days? lol.

  • lol wind and solar. even the people IN wind and solar know its a joke but we'll spend billions forcing it down the lines and completely restructuring our power grids to do it only to realize what the rest of the world already knows...GONUCLEAR.

  • If we drill right now, we'll have our own oil within 20-24 months. We have more reserves than the whole middle east. We the people would charge Exxon, Mobil, etc $50 per barrel as royalties. Compute that...Not only no income taxes, but no cap gains, nothing. Get some Tea Party conservatives into congress, stick spending at $2.6-2.8 Trillion yearly and we'd actually have a nearly $400 billion surplus per year from OUR oil revenues.

    Naaa, lets build windmills and run $1.4 T deficits.

  • @moodinator123 We do? that will be your little secret.

  • @bandwith

    What are you talking about? Please reply so that we know what your even discussing.

  • Sounds like the fascism that you Teabags are always crying about...

  • You want a war with China?!? They would destroy us in a war.

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  • Sheer numbers.

  • this isnt war world 2..numbers?..when the u.s stops using robots to fight wars than you might say that..now numbers doesnt mean everything..the u.s. is so far advanced its impossible for this land to be occupied by a enemy force..but i bet your a terrorist lover.i bet you think terrorists werent behind 9/11 huh lol

  • I never said anyone would try to occupy the US. I'm a terrorist lover because I think China could give us a run for our money? Fuck off.

  • @greenthumb.

    You may be a terrorist lover...

    But you are DEFINITELY a moron.

  • @greenthumbguy

    That is your great military analysis??? "Sheer numbers" ???

    That is one ridiculous remark. Our tanks would have a 12-1 to 20-1 kill ratio. Our aircraft are technically better and our pilots totally outclass them. Air kill ratio easily 6-1 to 10-1. We have a NAVY, theirs is the equivalent of ours 50 years ago. It would not be a 2 week war, but we would prevail. greenthumbguy = EPIC FAIL

  • Who gives a crap anyway? Like we're actually going to go war with China. They're our most favored trading nation. Where would American business be with out Chinese crap to sell?

  • @greenthumbfool

    They are a poor trading partner. They make it difficult to sell US products in their country. Plus the REASON we would/SHOULD go to war with them is if they go through with STEALING our oil. Do you condone stealing, or are you a puzzy?

  • Don't be naive. Look around you, pick up anything that's sitting on your desk and turn it upside down. Made in China. China still has Most Favored Nation Trading status wi the US. I'm not saying its right or wrong, just the truth. It's a symbiotic relationship. Call me a moron if you want, but you're the one suggesting going to war with China. Moron.

  • @greenthumbguy

    SOOOOO, if China starts pumping OUR oil out of the ground without paying us for it...therefore STEALING IT!!! You would not go to war to stop it?

  • Your suggesting that that the US government start selling oil to Exxon, ect? I'm afraid that's fascism.

  • @greenthumbidiot

    selling oil to Exxon is not fascism. It appears you have no education. You are a complete EPIC LIFE FAIL.

    We, the american people, own the oil reserves of this country. We can then lease those reserves to Exxon. ARE YOU THIS STUPID???? I guess the answer is a definitive YES.

  • And you are very easily manipulated.

  • no, you are easily manipulated. and you also fit the profile of a pedophile.

  • "Nuh uh, you are!" Thanks for proving my point FOR me. Beckerheads and Teabags are easily maniputlated, and when you challenge their intellect even slightly, they go right to the name calling, insults and all the other behaviors most of us got over in grade school. Ah well, what can I expect from someone who thinks Ronald Reagan was a great man. Go start a war with China.

  • @greenfool

    Thanks for proving MY point. You left-wing, turtle-hugging, losers are responsible for all the problems the USA is having right now. You lie unrepentently and then feel justified in raping small children.

  • What's up with references to pedophiles and raping small children? Sounds like YOU'RE the sicko.

  • green

    everygreen is a joke hippie school

  • And China is in the process of slant drilling OUR reserves. If we had a real man as President (i.e. Ronald Reagan) there would be a threat of war unless they back off.

  • if we build 150-250 nuclear plants, it'd supply over 75% of our energy needs. France gets 94% of it's energy from nuclear. Westinghouse has a phenomenal new nuke plant design...guess who is buying it right now??? China

  • My faith in humanity has been restored.

    My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord.............

  • Nuclear power would be great if we could dispose of the waste. Google "Hanford nuclear reservation" in Washington State.

  • these "kids" are not idiots, they're just asking for too much at once.

  • honestly tho, at least we got the whole racial thing out of the way and now we can concentrate on an actual leader who was raised in America, not just born here.

  • ubama was voted into office cause he's a black foo

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  • You stupid kids need to learn what you are talking about, instead if being narrow-minded little brats who think they know what is best for this country!

  • you make no argument, thus you are the narrow minded.

  • wtf did these people expect i mean alot of people voted for obama just cuz hes black just like how people were stupid enough to vote for schwarzenneger as governor just because he was an actor

  • You kids are STUPID!

  • Nothing like naive liberals!

  • Obama is one big joke on America....lol

  • this president suckass

  • They haven't putting into consideration that although all those sources of energy and more clean, their effiency is way below that of let's say nuclear power.that means you would need to spend waaaaaaay more money on solar panels and what not to to power one city

  • pussies

  • Hadron Coliders are the way to go when it comes to energy.

  • This vid got 2 stars.

  • Bah, not drilling for oil and using nuclear, is like losing your home to foreclosure when you have 10 million in the bank, just STUPID.

  • i hate obama

  • does anyone else want to slap her tits and choke her with the scarf or is that just me?

  • liberals.