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Someone has to foot the bill in the end, and that someone is regular citizens—either through their taxes, or through their energy bills.
by Georgelemental 4y ago
Someone has to foot the bill in the end, and that someone is regular citizens—either through their taxes, or through their energy bills.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoThe point is that neither of those is happening because the plants are not being built at all. They are footing an entirely different kind of bill instead, paid with an entirely different kind of currency. Instead of paying for a nuclear plant, regardless by what mechanism, they are living with continued use of coal and gas, or simply not enough capacity to meet the upcoming needs of things like wider adoption of EVs.
- Georgelemental 4y agoI'm not against government investment in energy production, I just don't think it solves the problem of nuclear overregulation.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoNo single entity solves anything. There is no such thing as an unbiased decision maker. Competing interests must always have to deal with each other and answer for whatever they do. Here we've had an entity with no consequences and it's had a negative outcome. It doesn't matter that it was a government or a private entity. Examples of both abound.