1) "When I first became a subscriber, I wondered why you called this publication Access to Energy. Now, as an engineer for an aluminum company, I'm watching the bureaucrats and Greens lighten the noose around the neck of my paycheck and my employer via controlling our power supply..."
C.L., Washington State
You got the main idea. However, as indicated in the subtitle, AtE also defends science even when it does not directly involve energy¾as in the ozone hoax.
2) A letter too long to condense, by a professor from Cheyenne, Wyo., who teaches climate, physics, and other subjects at several colleges along the Colorado Front Range took a class for a tour of Schneider's home base, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. They were shown an allegedly balanced video tape on global warming which turned out to be wholly unscientific propaganda. The producer of the tape? EPRI, the research institute of the electric utilities in Palo Alto. Still wonder that I call utility executives ignorant wimps and arsonists commanding fire brigades?
3) Yes, European agricultural subsidies are stomach-turning, but not one hair less so than American ones. In other areas, too, the US government subsidizes, imposes protectionist tariffs, and interferes with free trade on an appalling scale. In energy, the US has just imposed a ban of uranium imports from former USSR republics until¾ guess what! -- until the world price rises by 20%. (Unenriched uranium is not covered by international safeguards of any kind). Illicit smuggling of nuclear materials from the former USSR, with plenty of interested buyers and Eastern hunger for hard currency, is admittedly worrisome for the future, but at present there is a more pressing case, that of supplying the Serb aggressors with oil and other fuel in defiance of sanctions. The US State Department has confirmed this, but will "name no names." Well I will: Russia and the Ukraine (with or without their governments' knowledge) are supplying it via the Danube. This could be ended instantly by aircraft carriers in the Adriatic, whose planes could turn the docks in Belgrade and other Danube ports into works of modern art in twisted steel probably without losing a single pilot's life. That Mr. Major of Chickenheart and M. Mitterand de Yelleau Bellie have not done so to end the atrocious slaughter is no excuse for the US to be equally spineless.
4) I guess most guessers would lose this guessing game: 1) Of the 3 million Americans hospitalized annually, how many are treated by nuclear medicine? [1 million.] 2) How many nuclear medicine tests are performed on patients annually in the US? [100 million.] 3) What radioactive product is disseminated by the Sierra Club, Audubon, and dozens of other antinuclear organizations? [The clay layer of glossy paper.] 4) What consumer products rely on radioactivity" [Antistatic devices in manufacturing, from printing to shrink wrapping; most cosmetic products, sterilized by irradiation; americium smoke detectors in homes.] For many more benefits, write for "50 years of progress," USCEA, 17761 I St., NW/#400 Washington, DC 20006.
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Vol. 20, No. 4
Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive Volume: Volume 20 Issue/No.: Vol. 20, No. 4 Date: December 01, 1992 10:56 AM (For actual publication date see newsletter.) Title: Four more years of much more
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