GREEN LIES

Greenpeace "Global Warming and Energy Coordinator'' Steve Kretzmann circulated two slick booklets to members of Congress entitled Fiscal Fission: The Economic Failure of Nuclear Power and Energy for Employment: How to Heat Up the Economy. The first (printed on 100% recycled paper) claims that U.S. nuclear power costs in 1990 were 10.15 cents per kilowatt hour. The second (printed on 100% recycled paper - "Quest cover and Conservatree premium opaque text'' - with soy ink and union labor) calls for a $15 billion taxpayer financed program devoted to windmills and solar power.

The actual costs for U.S. nuclear power are shown in the figure below drawn from Utility Data Institute data by the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness, The Journalist's Guide to Nuclear Energy, 3rd edition p 15. This gives a 1990 cost per kilowatt hour of about one-fourth that claimed by Greenpeace to Congress.

The second Greenpeace "report'' also disparages hydrocarbon based energy generation. Remarkably, American industry has continued to reduce the real costs of energy even though regulatory costs placed upon energy production by politicians and stimulated by pseudoenvironmentalist lobbyists like Greenpeace have increased.

•	Death of a Messenger
•	SWEET AND PROFITABLE
•	VOLCANOES HAPPEN
•	HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS
•	GEOGRAPHICAL LIFE EXTENSION
•	ELEMENTAL POLITICS
•	*GREEN LIES*
•	STARK RAVING MAD
•	GOOD READING

Vol. 21, No. 7

Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive
Volume: Issues
Issue/No.: Vol. 21, No. 7

Date: March 01, 1994 05:38 PM
Title: Death of a Messenger