The truth is coal fired plants put out far more radiation from its ash piles than a Nuclear plant would ever be allowed to. And no matter how good the scrubbers are on a coal fired plant, it still adds greenhouse gases to the atmosphere as do other fossil fuel plants. No matter what Eco-Freaks claim, you cannot burn fossil fuels and have no pollution, sorry. Each fossil fuel plant built spews thousands of tons of CO2 into our atmosphere each year, and we have built hundreds of them. Now Eco-Freaks want to blame us for Green house gases, wanting to limit our emission foot print while downplaying what they have done in building massive "CO2 generators" called fossil fuel electrical generation plants that was sold to us as a viable alternative to Nuclear power generation.
And what do we do with the tons and tons of ash from the coal fired plants that includes radioactive materials--mainly, uranium and thorium and others? Eco-Freaks didn't think about that I guess when they were pushing for Coal fire generation and demonizing Nuclear power generation.
The ash is not even treated as Nuclear waste even though concentrated radioactive elements are present in the ash..
They refuse to deal with the radioactivity of these growing piles of ash.
MTB Gasoline additive in California fuel will reduce emissions. False, emissions increased due to lower gas mileage per gallon
and more fuel used per trip. And MTB found to cause serious health problems.
And I'm not even going to talk about Spotted Owls, Fairy Shrimp and Kangaroo Mice or not allowing dead moth killed trees to be
removed from our forest.
And the list goes on, the sad thing is that Eco-Freaks have had the ear of legislators for some time, and have cost the public billions of dollars in following the lead of this group of radicals. Now that their misguided advice of the past are starting to catch up with them, do they say we were wrong, no, now they are hell bent on pushing "Global Warming" as their new Mantra and place the blame on us for putting out to much CO2. They want to tax emissions of CO2. Guess what people, when you exhale you are putting out CO2. Plants love CO2, they turn it back into, guess what, Oxygen.
They would better serve our country to admit their mistakes and address the radioactive ash piles THEY have caused, move to build Nuclear power plants and get rid of those fossil fuel power plants that are spewing out thousands of tons of CO2 each year per plant, and do it as soon as possible. And it might not hurt to encourage the planting of trees in Cities and work hard at planting perennial high oxygen yielding plants in idle land areas.
They need to call for an investigation into why the EV1 Electric Car was taken off the market, which proved to be a vehicle worthy of marketing do to an overwhelming demand by California drivers where it was tested. After a threat of lawsuit by the Automotive Industry and US Government, California dropped its call for a percentage of Vehicles sold in California to be electric powered. The EV1's were leased out and when California dropped its demand for Electric power in favor of Hydrogen power, EV1's were rounded up by the Automaker and crushed...
Hydrogen power is a dream that may never be be affordable or viable at least for many years in the future. The EV1's were a cost efficient mode of transportation loved by drivers who had them. And is do-able now...
If we could type certify a Nuclear power plant design and speed up the process of replacing fossil fuel electrical generation plants with them would be a great step forward in energy Independence. By being type certified like airplanes are, each plant would not have to go through the lengthy certification process, only the construction site would have to pass certification, greatly speeding up the construction time.
Bring back EV1's or other electric cars based on the new storage battery technology and the combination of Nuclear power and Electric Vehicles would be totally supportive of any clean air policies for now and well into the future. As it is now charging an electric vehicle still produces greenhouse gases from the fossil fuel plant providing the electricity.
Now if they did that, they would actually effect the CO2 levels put out by America in a very significant way... Enough said..