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::: I'll embrace environmentalism when environmentalists admit that they
::: caused global warming by opposing nuclear power in the late 70s.

:: Even if all of our current electric grid were nuclear powered (or
:: other non-fossil-fuel alternatives) (and no cracks about uranium
:: being fossilized supernova remnant), automotive use would still
:: probably be fossil-fueled, and still be a sizeable contributor,
:: wouldn't it? How much woudl it have changed the total cumulative
:: fossil carbon output, if only grid power were removed since 1980?

: Jonathan Schattke <wizwom@xxxxxxxxx>
: Google-fu time! USA oil use chart electricity automotive
: http://perotcharts.com/2008/07/us-primary-energy-consumption-by-source-and-sector-2007/

Using that chart, I'd reckon that environmentalists only have to admit
they caused at most 28 percent of the US's share of global warming,
assuming uniform usage over the given time. There are way to many
simplifying assumptions to make it precise, but I suspect it's ballpark.
As an uppere bound; it'd actually be less, since it's unlikely
nuclear power would immediately support the entire grid load
for economic merits if it weren't opposed by FUD.

Of course, if one really wanted to be *aggressive* and totally phase
out any use of fossil fuels, it probably could have been done over that
time period, and electric cars and so on and so on. But environmentalists
don't need to take the rap for that, since even if they'd been eager to
push nuclear power, I doubt people would have gone along with that radical
a change. I mean, geez, we don't even do what in theory we could *now*
by draconian measures, let alone immediately then.

Hm. Draconian measures. How many BTUs in dragon's breath anyways?


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(sorry... "Google Time" set me off)


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