Seventy percent of our carbon-free electricity is nuclear.
But it could be more than that over time?
If I drive to work in a car, I do not pay anything under this cap and trade bill.
An economy-wide cap and trade is a poor way to reduce carbon because it has the effect of raising the price.
According to the Department of Energy, the direct jobs produced by 100 new nuclear reactors would be 250,000.
My view is that if we built 100 nuclear plants, if we electrify half the cars and trucks, and if we had mini-Manhattan P...
Senator Cardin mentioned that, he has been a consistent supporter of nuclear power.
It deliberately raises the price of energy when our goal for ourselves and for the world... ought to be cheap energy.
I agree with him that climate change is real, that humans are causing it. My problem is with the solution.
I have suggested a different way for the next 20 years, which I believe is simpler and will work.
The cost to the rate payer for nuclear, according to the National Academy, is 6 cents to 13 cents over the lifetime per ...