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Old 09-19-2008, 05:21 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by getnpsi View Post
I should go look up their infastructure, so I am not typing BS but it sounds like France has their **** together, a lot more than the United States. Their culture is ecofriendly whether they are trying to be or not. It started with the economy. They took advantage of what was available, and apparently their governmnt didnt deadlock, voted to build what was needed. Only vested interest was fixing their own country. In US you cant tell a corporation to "change careers" because something new is going to do its job.
The French nationalized the electric generation and distribution industries long ago, so changing the direction of power generation was simple.

If anything, the US gov't has impeded the change of power generation here by yielding too much influence to the treehuggers and NIMBYs.
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