Last evening my wife and I were out for dinner with two other couples during which my wife mentioned to one of the fellows that I had started a Blog. His response, I think understandably, was 'a place for him to rant'.
My wife tried to assure him that I tried to avoid ranting but I suspect it fell on deaf ears.
That aside, my note today is pure, unadulterated rant.
In our local city paper today appears a column by one of its notorious left-wing loons. Today she wastes her space by villifying nuclear as a suitable power source. In so doing she mentally adds nuclear to the dustbin of history along with the fossil fuels as perveyors of power to heat and light our homes and run our industries.
What's left?
Well the usual suspects - solar, wind, and water, but of course these are nowhere near sufficient to meet the demand.
What would they have us do?
Reduce our 'greedy' need for power by spiking the cost of power to unimaginable heights.
And what would this accomplish?
Less employment and a severe reduction in our standard of living. In short, less enjoyment of life.
Indeed, I believe these Loons are not a very happy lot - the only thing they take pleasure in is making the rest as unhappy as they are.
WHAT SHOULD BE DONE?
Give the free market its head. If one source of power gets too expensive, market mechanisms will kick in to find affordable alternatives. This may or may not entail nuclear, but let the marker decide the proper route to go. This is how things have worked so well in the past and will continue to work unless the politically correct get to decide otherwise.
And Government has a very important role in this. It must ensure that any potential damage to our environment is kept to an absolute mininum.
Progress and protection of the environment are not mutually exclusive.
"Galagher"
