Thanks again for all your works.

Rich. Hunter
(in VT)

First, insurance companies do insure the normal risks for nuclear power plants. Fire, windstorm, worker injuries, auto accidents, etc. the same as any other American business. They do not insure the “nuclear” risk (which is excluded from all policies, not just nuclear plants), mainly because there is no way to set a premium where there are no experienced accidents and there is no way to determine what damage a nuclear explosion would cause.

Secondly, even having said that, there is a pool of insurance companies that do insure the nuclear accident risk within certain specified limits. See http://www.nuclearinsurers.com for more details.

The Kennedy tradition of lying and making up facts seems to go on forever.

If You Build It, They Will Come

Serving as my company’s Energy Czar during the
1970’s energy crisis, I gained some extensive experience in the energy field. In my opinion, during that period, the consumer got caught up in a battle between the government and the energy companies. They said there was a shortage of fossil fuels; but, surprisingly, when the price of oil got high enough, there was no longer a shortage.

There are several long-term energy areas – such as
solar, wind, corn alcohol, etc. – that are research intensive and expensive but give promise as long-term
solutions.

For years, I have felt that there was some middle ground for energy growth. These would include drilling in the ANWR fields of Alaska and off the coast of Florida. But in my opinion, the one that has the greatest potential is nuclear power.
Only 20% of the U.S. energy supply is nuclear and there have not been any new plants put in operation since 1979 – over twenty-five years ago. In fact, a nuclear power plant has been built in the Northeastern area of the United States and has NEVER been turned on.

Are there dangers? Of course … but don’t the rewards
far outweigh the risks?

Worldwide, as of May 2005, there are 439 nuclear
energy reactors in operation and 137 under construction, planned or proposed. Of the 137, NONE are in the United States.

So where are they?

France: 78% of the French energy supply is nuclear,
with 59 reactors in operation.

China: 15 reactors operational with 31 in the works.

Russia: 17 nuclear reactors operating, generating 17% of Russian energy usage; they have another 13 underway
or planned.

Japan: 25% of their power is generated from 54
operating reactors, and they have another 14 in their
future.

South Korea: 20 nuclear generation plants producing
40% of their requirements; another 8 planned.

England and Canada: These two nations have more
reactors per capita than the U.S., with 40 plants in
operation and 5 under construction or planned.

What do these countries know that we in the U.S.
don’t?

With the right regulations and controls, nuclear power
can be our shortest path to achieving a self-sufficient energy level that will greatly reduce our dependency on imported oil.

Surprisingly, decreasing our dependence on foreign
oil will increase the oil supply and decrease the price of the imported oil … The Arab sheiks need the
money … Supply and Demand wins again.

You inspired me to write my latest column. Please, take the time to consider it. I have been there. I know what I am talking about. I was a conservative in a sea of liberal journalist but I have seen what a few well chosen comments can do.

I’m not sure to whom you are referring when you speak of “law enforcement.” Congress makes the laws of the land and the Supreme Court is the ultimate arbitrator to see that our laws pass constitutional muster. Unfortunately, some of our justices openly admitted that they feel they are entitled to bend the constitution to fit their own ideas of social justice and they were approved by the majority of our senators.

We are the problem. We let those senators survive. They should have been dumped. At least the outcry should have been so loud, that they would be too scared to do such a thing again.

As for the media. I have spent my entire career in the media, much of it in a television newsroom. I can tell you with certainty that the overwhelming majority of writers and reporters take the criticism they receive from average folks seriously because THEY WANT TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD JOURNALISTS.

Unfortunately, very few people bother to call or write a journalist when they see something that is biased or underreported or not reported at all. You would be surprised at the effect that you and 10 friends could have on your local media or you and 50 friends could have on someone in the national media by holding him or her accountable. If the journalist doesn’t respond, call his or her editor or news director. I know this works. I’ve seen it work. It just doesn’t happen every often.

Just keep your letters and phone calls short and RESPECTFUL if you want to be taken seriously.

When you see something wrong or biased in the media, give a letter writing party. Invite your friends. Have some computers with different fonts available and
writing paper with different pens. You don’t want it to look like it came from one person or it is part of a campaign. Have some examples of the problem recorded on the TV or photocopy some articles and then let your friends go to work. Give prizes for the most thoughtful, pithy, original, best use of humor. Then, assign your friends different dates to drop them in the mail, hopefully from a few different postal zones. If you are trying to impact a network, enlist some family members in other states to do the same.

Do it for your country!

I agree but I see things from a different slant. That being the Democrats and all liberals in the Republican party want to punish Americans for we have supposedly succeeded on the backs of slaves. They want our way of live to be changed and they are going to punish us for not listening to them. They refuse to allow drilling due to, not environmentalism, although I do think it is a part of the reason, but mainly due to our richness. Even our poor have more then most really poor families in other countries. You have Obama, who I question his citizenship due to his Birth certificate being absent, has a bill before the Senate that would have made the American tax payer pay for over 850 billion dollars a year to be given away through the United Nations, a known thief, to the worlds supposed poor. Then you have the Democrats crafting a carbon bill of several trillion dollars, again to be paid by the America tax payer, on a supposed theory of man caused global warming that is opposed by over 30,000 scientists, but is supported by mob rule and justice (for doesn’t “consensus” mean that?) Even a judge in England stated that several things in Gore’s movie were blatantly false.

Therefore it is Obama, Hilary, McClean and the Democratic party that hates Americans and believes that we should be punished. Otherwise why threaten to tax the tar out of the oil companies when it failed in the 1970 gas shortages? Only an increase in oil and gasoline relieved that and yes we need to drill and build refineries. Have you heard about that guy that is able to use bacteria to make hydrocarbons out of wood chips/grass clippings or anything that has biomass, which in turn can be refined like oil into gas and diesel. This has been proven because even the DOD wanted to be briefed by him but the news agencies are silent as the grave on this discovery. Makes you wonder why. I’ve even written my supposed representatives in Congress but they are also silent. How much they must hate the American people to inflict pain and the news media are part of this. How about Larry King’s program last night with several idiots that said to get a second job and look around your house and see what you can sell. That just doesn’t sound right to me. This supposed down turn is contrived because we have not had two or even one negative quarter.

Think about it. Instead of doing their best to impeach President Bush, the American people should impeach the Congress for not doing their jobs and doing instead witch hunts and pushing bills that will change the U.S. Constitution without going through the Amendment process as well as what is not good for America. AND I’M ANGRY ENOUGH TO HIT THE NEXT POLITICIAN I MEET. The consequences don’t even matter any more for now I must make choices that hurt my family just to get enough fuel each week to go to work. For a Dad and Husband that HURTS! And yes I’m already driving a small car that I can sometimes coax 40 miles per gallon out of but the parts are expensive since they do not make most of them anymore. It’s 12 years old and the radio doesn’t even work because no dealer will give me the code to unlock it. I drive a minimum of 60 miles a day for work and there is no way I can car pool and they do not have public transportation here. So tell the GOVERNMENT to KISS MY BEHIND. Sorry about that, I just get so angry that I’m now going out back to punch the bag to relieve some tension and anger. I also do a lot of praying for that helps too. But why does the Government hate us so much? Can you answer that? No one can here.

Thank you for listening and SMILE???? It might make someone nervous and I hope it’s a government official.

A Christian,

Ralph E. Zecco
Psalm 9:17 AV

You are so right on the gasoline issue. Sadly,I believe liberal America will not pull their heads out from the sand until another Pearl Harbor happens.
I notice most articles blame the Saudis for the high gas prices, but it seems we import most of our supply from Canada first, then Mexico and then the middle east. –Nottrib Yar