Quote Originally Posted by NedFlanders View Post
Record profits by gas/oil companies every report..............I myself would not mind paying more if it was needed..........But with record profits by everyone involved we know it is just to make more money..........There have been no new us refineries built since the 70's..............tree huggers and enviornmentalist whack jobs keep the red tape so thick not even bill gates would waste his money trying to cut thru it..........one of the last companies that tried spent 5 or 6 years in court trying to clear the red tape and just gave up..............
Red Tape and TREE HUGGERS.........you're RIGHT..........After the OIL embargo of the 70's we had over 150 Nuclear projects in some phase of development. Even around here.........You remember Marble Hill.....Well Three Mile Island KILLED any chance of EVER building a new plant.

If we had built those 150 nuclear plants, we'd use about 30% less fuel OIL. THAT would have eliminated the NEED for additional refineries.

FRANCE uses 80% NUCLEAR energy. While they **** at pretty much EVERYTHING, I think they got this one right.

Later,

Geo