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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 22 days ago
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I was saying this morning that I thought conservative affection for nuclear power was a bit odd in light of the fact that only massive socialism seems capable of financing nuclear power plants. David Frum has a post in response that I don’t totally understand:
Nor is it true, as ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 23 days ago
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Brad Plumer has an interesting piece about the
American right’s strangely passionate love affair with nuclear power...
and the impact it’s having on the climate debate in congress. What I find especially odd about it is that it’s so ...
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Nuclear Socialism
highclearing.com - 28 days ago
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highclearing.com —
Obamas reward young people on the basis of
desire - not even need! – rather than achievement....
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That’s Socialism!
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Matthew Yglesias » Frum on Nuclear Socialism http://bit.ly/4uXk0t 22 days ago |
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Nuclear Socialism?, Ctd
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Yglesias responds to Frum: Even though carbon pricing ought to make nuclear power profitable on an
operating cost basis, it would be prohibitively expensive to raise the
capital necessary to construct nuclear plants. I think you could
resolve this by having the state step in and do the financing. He
thinks, I guess, that some counterfactual private utility could do it
if it were far larger than any existing utility. But how would you make
these mergers happen? That sounds to me like you need an active state.
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