Cassandra Goes Yard

Yeah, yeah, I know his name is Karl, but the absolute purity of his ignored analyses demands he be tagged Cassandra. And now to the death march:

We have had and squandered nearly 40 years since the 1970s oil shocks during which we could have put in service hundreds of nuclear reactors and wired every rail line with overhead power, eliminating the need to use petroleum for rail transport and replacing a large number of our base load coal-fired power plants at the same time. We refused because we were afraid of a nuclear accident. In exchange for this we have hundreds of thousands of people who have died of asthma over those 40 years aggravated by the coal plant stack output and several oil spills, including the current one. France, which went the nuclear route, has not had one of their civilians die as a consequence over the same time frame.

This is called a decision to allocate risk; we went one direction, they went the other. You tell me: who made the better choice?

The rest of the rant is truly magnificent, sparing no one. He does, however, cut the EPA a break by not fisking them. Seems they feeeeel that BP isn't doing all they should... Wheninthehell did that become a substitute for rigorous analysis?
This should be required reading for every mutt Congresscritter AND all the voters.

Great job, Karl.