Senate Republican Climate-Change Debate Hearing: 100 New Nuclear Plants, or New National Energy Tax?

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Uploaded by on Jun 22, 2009

The Senate Republican Conference held a hearing on Monday, June 22, to investigate the effect the Democrats proposed cap-and-trade national energy tax will have on job growth and the ways in which building 100 new nuclear plants over the next 20 years could help our economy, keep America competitive, and protect our environment. Senator Bob Bennett, R-Utah, chaired the hearing.

Participants included Ben Lieberman of the Heritage Foundations Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies; Ted Rockwell of the American Nuclear Society; Christopher Guith of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy; and Kevin Book of ClearView Energy Partners.

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  • Thanks for this. Finally a discussion of sanity and reality over fear on what needs to be done.

  • There is nuclear fallout in the ice cores!!! this stuff is in the air, water, farms, and in the ice pack. they turned the earth into one big microwave oven. You dudes are just working for the greed. Bankers are doing what ever and, so are these Nuke dudes. they dump this stuff in the first free hole they find. Global warming? BS!!! The real question is WHY ICE MELTS! nuclear fallout! you killed the plant! Now get ready for POST GLACIER REBOUND and you can't stop it. ONLY GOD HIMSELF Scott (BUG)

  • GW was fiction from nuclear power. Meanwhile teh deep sea does nuclear FUSION from water. Producing He and O.

  • America can no longer build the Light Water Reactors they pioneered in the 1950s. The large 600 ton steel forgings required build the reactor pressure vessels needed to insure safety for this class of reactor can now only be built in Japan or Russia. It is probably not possible to regain the capacity to build these heavy steel forgings associated with traditional Light Water Reactors in the USA.

  • Lol ...Job growth,I just lost my job today. No one going to buy American with this Tax. Unemployment is going to go up in the next few month by about 10%.My next vote is going to be done with a gun. I'm voting for war. We need to be Americans and grow some balls....

  • Just look at how this type of legislation is effecting Britain. It is not good for Americans. Surely there is another way.

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