Atomic-powered debate
Can someone please dispatch a seventh-grade science teacher to the Utah Senate?
Several senators, including Chris Buttars and Mark Madsen, argued to amend a renewable energy resolution, SJR1, to include nuclear energy. Sen. Pat Jones' measure is meant to encourage development of wind, geothermal and solar energy resources.
But Buttars—who it should be noted, also is sceptical of the teaching of evolution—wanted nukes added to the list. And before the amendment ultimately failed, Madsen argued:
[Nuclear power] is a wholly natural process. This really is a renewable source of energy at the least and a perpetual source at best.Sen. Scott McCoy, who apparently has the Golden Illustrated Book of Atoms at home, pointed out that uranium, the stuff used to produce nuclear energy, is a finite resource, adding:
I'm pretty sure the laws of physics are the same in Utah.Then again, when was the last time McCoy was in Utah County?
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It's so embarrassing to have these rubes running the committee system and making our laws. But the bright point is that Buttars et al got blasted (sorry for the pun) for trying to steer the resolution toward their own special interests. I'm not so sure Buttars and Madsen are quite that dumb. As past debates over funding nuclear power in Utah have shown us, these guys have much to gain financially by pushing a nuke agenda. Yesterday's debate was just politics at its finest, and this time--for a change--they lost to their intellectual betters. Yay for the beleaguered Democrats!
just shilling for their buddies tilton and noel. don't expect to see this quietly die either.
greedy B**tards
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