Environmental Lunacy
This is an opinion piece written by Michael Barone in July 2008. It was printed many places, including the Washington Times where I read it. I clipped the piece out of the paper and saved it in a drawer, where I recently rediscovered it. It think it rings just as true today as it did when I first read it in 2008. It is linked below from Real Clear Politics.
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lobbyists and litigators for environmental restriction groups have produced energy policies that I suspect future generations will regard as lunatic. We haven’t built a new nuclear plant for some 30 years, since a Jane Fonda movie exaggerated their dangers. We have allowed states to ban oil drilling on the outer continental shelf, prompted by the failure of 40- or 50-year-old technology in Santa Barbara, Calif., in 1969, though current technology is much better, as shown by the lack of oil spills in the waters off Louisiana and Mississippi during Hurricane Katrina. Read more at www.realclearpolitics.com
