Re: nuclear energy
I work for a company that supplies energy to residential customers, and I'll tell you that that side of it makes me think there is a lot of dirt in the energy industry. First off, there seems to not be a lot of regulation of the industry at least from the customers viewpoint (some get "slammed" or switched to another company without consent)
In addition, the rates for providing energy to your home (at least in the market we supply to) has more than doubled since 2 years ago, and shows no sign of backing down. With the price rate increase for keeping your house warm in the winter or not boiling in the summer, as well as huge prices for gas, not to mention the price increase for everything else that happens to be shipped somewhere by a vehicle that runs on gas, we are looking at a potential crisis in the near future.
We desperately need an answer to the question "what are we going to do for our energy/fuel?" As our current administration has a energy policy that is narrow minded (to put it politely)
As for green energy, like solar and wind; it happens to cost a little more due to gas/coal being so entrenched in our energy production. It would be nice to switch to green so as to not pollute (especially our drinking water), but everyone would have to embrace it rather than giving it just a cursory glance.
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