To date, I agree with every word and/or admire every question that comes out of Victor Davis Hanson's keyboard. Here is a verbatim transcript from one of his posts on The Corner yesterday:
1/2 a million barrels, yes -- 1 million, no?
I am confused: for years we were told that the projected 1 million barrels per day from ANWR would be simply too small to make much of a difference given our 20 million some barrel a day appetite — and therefore not worth the environmental risk. Now we wait in tense anticipation for a Saudi willingness to pump an extra 1/2 million per day (from where and how we apparently simply don't care), which we hope will send a message that world supply and demand might be in better sync to cut the feet out from under speculators. So how can 500,000 barrels now do what a million once could not?
Showing posts with label Energy Policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Energy Policy. Show all posts
17 June 2008
09 June 2008
NV: More Knee Jerking Over Yucca
“The United States Department of Energy submitted its license application for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission on June 3,” wrote Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez-Masto in an op/ed in this Sunday's Nevada Appeal. “Nevada's experts reviewed the application and quickly concluded that it is neither viable nor complete.”
I'm wondering who these “Nevada experts” were. I think I'll call the AG's office this week and ask. If there's one thing I've learned in my short stint on NV's political airwaves, it's that big words get bandied around like nobody's business and follow-up questions are key. (Shall we take a wild guess and speculate that at least some of these "experts" are people who have already come down against Yucca in the past? And shall we ask how they managed to sift through the 8,600 page application in less than a week in order to render their "expert" verdict...? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to take three to four years to evaluate all the information before reaching its decision on whether or not to license the Repository...so who were these speed-reading geniuses that managed to do it in 4 days?)
We keep seeing what looks an awful lot like co-ordinated knee-jerk opposition over Yucca Mountain lately. Stand by!
I'm wondering who these “Nevada experts” were. I think I'll call the AG's office this week and ask. If there's one thing I've learned in my short stint on NV's political airwaves, it's that big words get bandied around like nobody's business and follow-up questions are key. (Shall we take a wild guess and speculate that at least some of these "experts" are people who have already come down against Yucca in the past? And shall we ask how they managed to sift through the 8,600 page application in less than a week in order to render their "expert" verdict...? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to take three to four years to evaluate all the information before reaching its decision on whether or not to license the Repository...so who were these speed-reading geniuses that managed to do it in 4 days?)
We keep seeing what looks an awful lot like co-ordinated knee-jerk opposition over Yucca Mountain lately. Stand by!
04 June 2008
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