[TheForge] Clean unused paint cans? OT: POL:

[dann at wctatel.net]

Yep.  Nuclear hazard vs oil hazard.

I had friends send me a bunch of anti-environmentalist emails this past
week.  Maybe that just coincided with oil prices jumping up, and a bunch
of wannabe Presidential Candidates doing political rallies around Iowa.

Environmentalists become the political whipping boys, when they try to
balance the poisoning of what we eat, drink, and breath( our shared
environment) versus economic interests of big business.

My Conservative grandparents believed in Conservation.  For them, being
conservative meant not wasting anything.  Grandma thought she was a
Conservative Republican, but these days, I think if she were alive now,
she would fit better with the Environmentalists than the Drill Baby Tea
Party.

Like changing the meaning of a word in slang,  as in using the slang word
"Bad" to mean good, I think that the term Conservative got flipped upside
down, during the last 60 years.

Anyway, I don't believe real Conservatives would be pushing to ease
regulations on new nuclear plants, or how to commend the corporate
safeguards as demonstrated last Summer by Big Oil.

Dann


Peter Fels wrote:
> I live about 50 miles from a big, aging, nuke plant that's about 40 miles
> from a part of the San Andreas fault, that has a jog in it that hasn't had
> a major quake for a long time. It's right on the ocean and has saved up a
> life time of spent waste rods kept in  steel tanks of water
> Diablo Cyn ( right name anyway).
> I'm typing this using the sparks from that plant right now.
> The company that owns it (PG&E) has dodged responsibility for the eventual
> decommissioning and clean up.
> None of the local counties will let them truck the waste across their
> roads.
> My last place was about 25 miles up the coast from the plant, also on the
> moraine above the "Pacific".
> That place was washed away ( it was wonderful to be able to work steel and
> fish at the same time).
> Unpainted 20 ga steel would rust through in a year there.
> When they stuffed the building of the plant down the locals throats,
> saying
> "Clean, Safe, too cheap to meter", they sited it on Avila Bay..a funky
> little jewel of a harbor.
> Ironically, it was later discovered that Standard Oil had leaked millions
> of gallons nearby.
> In the event of a japan size catastrophe, even if the roads were somehow
> to remain open,
> the adjacent population couldn't be evacuated in a reasonably short period
> of time.
> It sure did employ a bunch of welders for a while though.,
> My guess/hope is that nukes as an alternative energy source is about over.
>
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