LOL that was hard to watch.

Multiple Explosions on Mexican pipeline. Claims of responsibility by leftists discounted, leaving no credible claims. Now who likes to do terror without taking credit, hmmm ? Only one little ‘ole Religion of Peace, that is. Now, what were the effects…

Open the borders to fight terrorism!

Please let’s not forget that the Mexican government, in the current geopolitical climate, is openly hostile to the expressed interests of the United States.

Besides which, such a move doesn’t make much sense on Hugo’s part.

But breaking our nation’s irrational moratorium on nuclear energy has to happen if future generations, if not our own, has a chance of reducing oil consumption without devastating the national economy.

Blacklake on September 14, 2007 at 12:05 AM

Yes, breaking the moratorium on nuclear energy is the hard part. The rest of it is technology we already have. Nuclear power plants are nothing new and if these guys can build hydrogen internal combustion engines out of old used engine blocks then I’m pretty sure Ford can do it.

Producing hydrogen is easy, all you need is electricity and water. So build a couple of dozen nuclear power plants to get us way ahead of the curve as far as requirements for cheap electricity and use the excess power to produce hydrogen, then we don’t need no stinkin oil.

Adding nuclear generating capacity doesn’t reduce our oil usage. Oil accounts for only about 3% of US electricity production, coal for about 50%. Can’t see how building nuclear power plants will reduce oil usage or reduce oil imports.

Oldnuke on September 13, 2007 at 8:47 PM

It’s a first step in upgrading our power-generation capacity such that we might eventually have enough excess electrical production to financially offset the inefficiencies of things like hydrogen fuel cells in cars and trucks. It’s not the last step by any means, or even the hardest. But breaking our nation’s irrational moratorium on nuclear energy has to happen if future generations, if not our own, has a chance of reducing oil consumption without devastating the national economy.

I found this story by chance in the Peruvian newspaper. Me. See-Dubya. Your old buddy See-Dub who wants a real fence on the border. It was not a tip from SPP HQ. It’s not being picked up by the MSM and any publicity it gets will be because I was invited to post at Hot Air this week.

We’re not part of the NAU conspiracy. It doesn’t exist, and if it did, I don’t think they’d invite us.

Well, maybe Bryan.

- The Cat

Prepare yourselves for the predictable call for the “North American Community” to stand together against such threats. How convenient, with what’s going on now, that the new face of evil would make such a bold move against Mexico and Canada. Bush holds press conference offering his support to both of our good neighbors in 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 …

Perhaps if Mexico would get in a shooting war with Venezuela, perhaps they would need most of that 10% of their work force here back home. En masse self-deportation of illegals would obviously be the ideal. Several problems solved at once.

I would take a strong look at Chavez being behind this group. One, he’s not a fan of the current Mexican president and wants to create instability there, and by default, in our backyard. Two, he’s known to fund other guerrila outfits in Latin America. And, the apparent increase in sophistication with this attack could suggest training and support from a government. Three, losses in Mexican production may drive customers to Venezuela. Four, he wants the price of oil to go up so he can make more money.

This will be something worth keeping an eye on.

Now we know why he was buying all those AK-47s from Russia. This is troubling. This is a dangerous escalation within our hemisphere. Chavez has a list of reasons for doing this and likely has plans for a lot more. Time to revive the Monroe Doctrine. And yes, consideration should be given to adding the Chavez regime to the state sponsors of terror list.

All Mexico has to do is redirect her noble workforce into Venezuela (to do the work that Venezuelans won’t do). Conflict over.

Maxx on September 13, 2007 at 9:04 PM

Just doin the jobs Mexicans won’t do.

Sorry but you’re talking about introducing an entirely new technology. A new nuke plant will cost at least 5 billion dollars to build. No power company is going to invest that much money in a totally untested untried technology with no guaranteed base of income. Ain’t gonna happen.

Oldnuke on September 13, 2007 at 8:50 PM

You may be right, but I hope your wrong. Hydrogen should be the energy of the future because it’s clean and no end to the supply. I think there are companies looking at it, whether it goes forward or not, who knows. But it would be the perfect solution.

Maxx on September 13, 2007 at 8:43 PM

Sorry but you’re talking about introducing an entirely new technology. A new nuke plant will cost at least 5 billion dollars to build. No power company is going to invest that much money in a totally untested untried technology with no guaranteed base of income. Ain’t gonna happen.

pedestrian on September 13, 2007 at 8:29 PM

Adding nuclear generating capacity doesn’t reduce our oil usage. Oil accounts for only about 3% of US electricity production, coal for about 50%. Can’t see how building nuclear power plants will reduce oil usage or reduce oil imports.

How will building nuclear power plants drive the price of oil down?

Oldnuke on September 13, 2007 at 8:04 PM

Use excess nuke power to make hydrogen, build a distribution network for it and run cars off hydrogen. The hydrogen internal combustion engine is a reality. And basically you can use hydrogen to do anything you can do with natural gas.

How will building nuclear power plants drive the price of oil down?

Oldnuke on September 13, 2007 at 8:04 PM

OK, well not just build them, but operate them to generate electricity and reduce our imports of oil.