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Democrats encouraged by Obama’s support for solar power

Restoring solar power to the White House may be the first tiny step toward the green-powered future necessary to our survival.

Next must come the definitive turn away from the failure of atomic power.  Imagine what a magnificent green-powered Earth we might inhabit had we not squandered all those billions on that profoundly dangerous, disastrously expensive technology.

Team Obama is clearly responding to the anger of the Democratic base.  Those who worked to put them in the White House want it green. by Harvey Wasserman, 6 Oct 10, This includes ferocious opposition to atomic energy.  The administration recently granted $8.33 billion in loan guarantees for a disastrous double-reactor scam in Georgia.  Barely underway, the project has already resulted in $100 million in hikes for the state’s ratepayers.  The builders are now asking for an extra $1 billion.  Horrific delays and cost overruns have already defined new reactor construction in Finland, France and elsewhere.

But Steven Chu’s Department of Energy may be poised to grant yet another set of guarantees for yet another disastrous reactor project in Maryland, Texas or South Carolina.  And the administration has been supporting moves in Congress to vote in still more money for a failed technology which is efficient and reliable only in wasting billions of taxpayer and rate payer dollars.

Maybe the new solar panels will zap some green sense into Obama’s energy planners.

Likewise the military.  Obama’s magic moment was when he “evaluated” escalating the war in Afghanistan.

Despite weeks of deliberations, he met only with “experts” in suits and uniforms.  He never talked with his once-ardent and hopeful supporters in the movements for peace, justice and environmental preservation.

Now we read, from Bob Woodward and others, that the generals refused to even provide the President with the exit strategy he requested.

Who is running this country?  The civilians or the military?

Obama’s decision to escalate drained his supporters of hope and trust.  And it robbed us all of the budgetary options essential to rebuilding our economy and employment picture.

The Democrats have stumbled into the mid-term elections void of a vision that can excite our nation with real hope for an economic turn-around.  Restoring solar power to the White House may be the first tiny step toward the green-powered future necessary to our survival.

Next must come the definitive turn away from the failure of atomic power.  Imagine what a magnificent green-powered Earth we might inhabit had we not squandered all those billions on that profoundly dangerous, disastrously expensive technology.

And then we need a full, comprehensive and fearless national evaluation of the gargantuan military budget that is draining our nation of its moral and fiscal core.  Imagine what Obama’s Nobel Prize speech—and mid-term election prospects— might resemble if he had begun that process instead of caving in to the military in Aghanistan, now such a clear failure.

We’ve been three decades fighting to get those solar panels restored to the White House roof.  It finally appears we may have won that one.

Now comes the nuclear-military madness.

It’s a big mountain to climb—but so was electing this guy in the first place.

Our survival depends on it….so let the light shine in!!!

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Harvey Wasserman’s SOLARTOPIA!  OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH is at www.solartopia.org, as is Pete Seeger’s “Song for Solartopia”.

October 5, 2010 - Posted by Christina MacPherson | general | antinuclear, climate change, energy efficiency, France, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, reactors, renewables, solar