Thanks a lot Mona.

Just when I though there was a grain of sanity in that mountain of idiocy called SOTU and along you come to clue me in.

Oh well. My best efforts to imagine Mr Obama somehow worthy have never lasted more than a day or two, anyway.

"They are wasting their time, squandering our money, and insulting our intelligence."

I think they are biding their time, stealing our money and counting on our stupidity.

There's no such thing as just informing the public any more. Now it's all about sounding the alarm.

Gee! That's funny....I didn't see anything at all about that on tv or in the paper. Maybe the 'journalists' were busy elsewhere.....

And why doesn't the blue ribbon panel talk to other nations that are using nuclear power?

Mona:

"They are wasting their time, squandering our money, and insulting our intelligence".

Anything to avoid our "embarassment of riches" of oil, natural gas and coal.

When you add them all together, we have the largest reserves on the planet.

In three states alone, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, we have nearly 300 years of shale oil.

We would not only be energy independent, but we would be able to flood the market with cheap oil, employ countless people, generate revenues and jump start the economy.

He only wishes to appear that he is serious about doing something, such as the "Blue-Ribbon" commision to "study" the deficit that will not start until November.

He works harder to get out of doing something than he would if he did the thing in the first place.

That will be the hallmark of this mis-administration.

Old native american comment "He speaks with forked toungue"

WORDS and ACTIONS are two very different things. At times, they are diametrically opposed.

The one thing not mentioned is the less safer alternative that we have today and the impact of further delaying the decision to hold materials at Yucca Mountain. If DOE estimated the impact of prolonged storage at the current sites, it would probably far out exceed the estimates for storage at Yucca Mountain even under a worst case scenario.

Correction: The ratepayers (i.e., the people who purchased and used the electricity) have invested more than $19 billion over 30 years to build the facility. This combined with the $13 billion of interest that has accrued over the years puts the total at over $33 billion dollars for the facility, of which almost $11 billion has been spent.

This money was collected through a 1/10th of a cent per kWh fee on the electricity generated at nuclear power plants. The taxpayer hasn't paid anything for Yucca Mountain, except perhaps for lawyers fees to defend against lawsuits from the utilities to get their money back, since the federal government hasn't lived up to its responsibilities under the law.

Brian if I understand you right, then Yucca Mountain has become a private matter and the Government has no say in the matter. If tax payer moneys have not been used then the project is the utility companies project.

Doesn't France recycle a vast percentage of their nuclear waste? Why can't we do something similar instead of storing it forever?

Wasn't it Einstein who said the definition of an idiot was someone who keeps doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results every time. God help me, but sometimes I think our Government kind fits that definition.

Obama, You lie. Pelosi, Reid et al you contemptfull lot, to put it nicely, you are all a bunch of manipulative liers.

Obama, You lie. Pelosi, Reid et al you contemptfull lot, to put it nicely, you are all a bunch of manipulative liers.

Obomer has given The EPA all the power & there will never be a nuclear plant safe enough or clean enouch. This is what is called in Washington "smoke & mirrors" that has replaced the "Potomic Two Step"

It has become abundantly clear that whatever this man, who many call President, says should be absolutely discarded as less than the truth, if not outright lies. Whatever he says he will do, you can count on him to do the opposite. It is appalling how many still seem to fall for his meaningless smooth talk.

Mona:

They are taken in by "Smoke & Mirrors". Obomer

gave all the power to the EPA & there will never

buiuld a nuclear plant clean enough to meet their stamdards. As the red man would sat,"you forked tongue devil".Nuclear power has not got a chance in this country. The only way is to get the U.S. Navy

involved because they have had nuclear shipe since the 50's. They could build us clean safe nuclear plants. Also there is a company that will take the spent fuel rods & make them useable.Excellant article.

Thank You