Shelley Berkley: “I am voting against this legislation. It does absolutely nothing to lower the outrageous price of gasoline at the pump.…”

“I am voting against this legislation. It does absolutely nothing to lower the outrageous price of gasoline at the pump. It provides precious little for research and development of renewable energy sources. What it does do is give huge subsidies to the oil and gas industries that are making record profits. But the main reason I am voting against this dog of a piece of legislation is because it gives major megasubsidies to the nuclear industry so that they can build more nuclear power plants. {time} 1200 What is the problem with this? When you have nuclear energy it produces a deadly by-product. That deadly by-product is nuclear waste. This Nation has never figured out what to do with the nuclear waste. We cannot safely store it. Our solution is to put it in a hole in the Nevada desert where we have ground water problems, seismic activity, volcanic activity. Why would we be spending billions of dollars of taxpayers' money to produce more nuclear waste that has a radioactive life of 300,000 years? Before we waste taxpayers' money on nuclear energy, let us figure out how to deal with the nuclear waste. This is a slap in the face and an insult to the people I represent.”