Energy bill includes massive corporate welfare

[mburbank]

Six new privately owned, for profit, Nuclear power plants to be funded by taxpayers. I think that's sweet.

[The One and Only...]

Explain.

[mburbank]

"Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) and the Bush Administration would give the nuclear power industry yet another bail-out as part of the much-maligned energy bill. Domenici has included, among other largesse, a 1.8 cent per kilowatt-hour production tax credit for electricity produced by new atomic reactors. This provision, crafted in secret and not released until late Saturday night, could cost taxpayers as much as $7.5 Billion and is intended to result in the construction of six new privately-owned, for-profit reactors across the county. This provision alone would cost each American family about $600."
-Nuclear Information Resource Service

"The No Lobbyist Left Behind Bill"
-John McCain

[Zhukov]

Wow. That must have been hard to get people to vote for.

[El Blanco]

Dude, that bill was so shot to hell it is rediculous. Have you read some of the other ass-backwards items on it?

[mburbank]

Is is THE most unabashed pork butt supreme ever. It's like friggin' Caligula wrote it it's so unashamedly corrupt.