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…ates, I am merely trying to point out the slightly amusing situation where Jerry Taylor of Cato and Tom Cochran of NRDC end up sounding the same, even though they are traditionally from opposite ends of the political spectrum. You and others still disagree with me, but I maintain that the best logical explanation for that seeming contradiction is that both CATO and NRDC have supporters who have no real ideology other than maintaining the wealth an…

…ate. I am a daily reader of Atomic Insights. Actually, I do not agree with Jerry Taylor on this. My position has always been that the government should not be in the picking energy sources business. So whether we should use nuclear energy or natural gas should be decided by the market. With that said, I believe that clean, affordable nuclear energy is critical to the future of the nation. Jerry basically assumes nuclear is inherently expensive and…

…against new nuclear plants, they’re our friends. According to the authors, Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, the ONLY reason why there is any interest in new nuclear power plants is that there are some federal subsidies and policies either proposed or in place that encourage the industry. They assert that no investor would be interested without those policies because they believe there is a fundamental price disadvantage that nuclear power cannot…

…h their feet (hence I have titled my forthcoming book Terrestrial Energy). Jerry Taylor, the man on the opposite side of this debate, is not an environmentalist or a leftist, he is from the Cato Institute, an organization that bills itself as a defender of limited government, free markets, individual liberty and peace. His opinion of nuclear power is that it is a risky investment that takes too long to begin paying off for investors, especially be…