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On the recordMay 5, 2010
The thing that's amazing about that to me, I am an engineer by training, and let's assume that all of this global warming supposedly science were all true, which we now know, particularly since East Anglia and the scandal there that all of these guys were doctoring the numbers and everything, but let's just assume for sake of argument that CO2 is really a bad gas and aside from the fact that all of us have to stop breathing because we breathe out carbon dioxide. Aside from that, let's just assume that that's true. If you really wanted to get rid of CO2 in America, regardless of what other nations in the world are doing, you think this is our moral obligation to get rid of CO2, we could get rid of all the CO2 produced by all the passenger cars in America, the equivalent of that amount of CO2, by simply taking the electric generation that's done in our country that's done with coal-fired plants, we currently have 20 percent of electricity in America is made by nuclear, if we were to go from 20 to 40 percent nuclear, we would get rid of all the CO2 produced by every passenger car in America.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri

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The speaker discusses the potential of nuclear energy to reduce CO2 emissions in the context of climate change.

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