Sept. 22, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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| You gave me an answer of what Joe Biden said in Western Pennsylvania. | |
| What is your belief about what a Biden administration would in fact do vis-a-vis fracking? | |
| Well, I think partly it will depend finally on who he appoints to a few key positions. | |
| I think there will be more restrictions, you know, I think there'll be more regulation, you know, which will not ban fracking, but, you know, they've said you can't You know, produce, you know, on federal lands, and people hear that, and I think Yellowstone National Park. | |
| But, you know, the federal government owns 48% in the western United States. | |
| There's a lot of land there that's not Yellowstone National Park. | |
| So I think there'll be that. | |
| And I think it'll be harder to build pipelines for these new supplies, that there'll be more kind of... | |
| In general, there'll be a bigger emphasis on regulation across the economy. | |
| That's where their pendulum is swinging. | |
| Well, that's pretty scary to me. | |
| All right. | |
| Now, do you have a theory as to why the opponents of fossil fuels are not pro-nuclear power? | |
| Well, there are a few who are, but I think it's part of the DNA to be against nuclear power, too. | |
| Even though it's 20% of our electricity, and it is carbon-free electricity. | |
| So, you know, I think it's just been part of the toolkit for so long. | |
| Obviously, things like Fukushima, you know, you have something like that happen. | |
| Yeah, but Fukushima proves how safe it is. | |
| Well, I guess in some ways you can say that. | |
| In any event, Fukushima was, you know... | |
| In my previous book, I looked into it. | |
| If the seawall had been about three feet higher, it probably wouldn't have happened. | |
| But in any event, let's say Germany is shutting down its nuclear power. | |
| In that same period of time, China will have added more nuclear power. | |
| So other countries are moving ahead. | |
| But here, it's partly... | |
| Also, the other thing right now, nuclear is having this problem just competing with cheap natural gas. | |
| But to go back to your point, I think, you know, there are probably some environmentalists, some people very concerned about climate change who want nuclear power, but the vast majority of it just, you know, have written it off. | |
| Right, so here it's not a right-left issue. | |
| I'm just curious, is it purely emotional? | |
| I have not read a single coherent argument against nuclear power. | |
| Yeah, I think there is a, you know, it goes back decades. | |
| It's this fear of, you know, what you can't see, of radiation and all those sort of scary things. | |
| But, you know, nuclear power in the United States is very well managed and there's a very effective system for managing it. | |
| But the reason, by the way, forgive me, I just want to say the reason I said Fukushima proved its safety is that was the worst case scenario and virtually no one died. | |
| Yeah, that's true. | |
| People died of the tsunami, not of radiation. | |
| Yeah, and what I was going to add, you know, what's not well known, there are actually in this country now 62, I think, well certainly over 60 companies and projects looking at developing next generation nuclear energy. | |
| So nuclear is, you know, you know, people see that nuclear, if you're going to move in the direction people want to, you know, people want to move to low carbon, nuclear is part of, you know, That's part of that picture. |
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