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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.164450.4610@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <j0wr-mh@dixie.com> <1993Jan5.160419.6951@vexcel.com> <w6xr1_c@dixie.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:44:50 GMT
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- In article <w6xr1_c@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- >dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- >
- >>This is not at all what it was about. It did not use any renewables
- >>or "soft energy" sources
- >>nor did it force any conservation - in fact conservation was not
- >>mentioned. Remember that conservation and efficiency are different.
- >>No social changes were suggested, let alone forced. _All_ it
- >>recommended was capital investment in efficiency.
- >
- >Yeah, I keep forgetting that "investment" is the new PC word for
- >"tax'n'spend" and "efficiency" is the word for forced conservation.
- >
- >As in "We're comitting the country to investing in energy efficiency."
- >Translated that means "We're going to steal an ever larger chunk of
- >your wealth in order to play around with social engineering."
- >
- >If they get to "invest", I get to propose the nuclear alternative under
- >the best reasonable circumstances.
- >
- >John
- >
- John, it appears that you are not interested in an intelligent discussion
- of the issue. If you decide to stop stuffing people into convenient
- little boxes that make your ideological beliefs easy to support, let us
- know.
-
- To others, note that efficiency means using less energy by using
- more efficient technology and does not indicate _any_ decrease in
- energy services, which is what conservation means.
- >--
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