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I am old enough to remember when the environmentalists fought the nuclear power industry and basically put them out of business. Many of their plants closed. And what was the alternative given by these environmentalist at the time, you guessed it coal. They told us it was better for the environment and it was plentiful. At the time I thought it was a dumb thing to do. I had ridden past local coal plants and thought, this is better than the nukes. Remember that was before these plants were cleaned up to what they are today. And now the country is relying on those coal plants for a good percentage of our power generation. The nuclear power industry told us at the time it was developing much safer and smaller plants, but by that time no one would listen. So now the children of those environmentalists who shut down most of the nuclear plants are going after coal and they should. It would have been better if we would have had a good source of power to fall back on as we shift from coal to a cleaner fuel, but we don't. So I think that 40 years ago the environmentalists should have looked ahead and that is where they went wrong. This country seems only interested in that which is happening now and in the very near future.