Saturday, May 29, 2010
Unfortunately good analogy
One of the talkers on the WSJ feature on Fox this morning asked if the BP oil spill will be like Three Mile Island: an event that causes us to abandon an entire sector of our economy. He's probably right, and the analogy is more complete, more perfect than he meant.
In both cases the real accident ruined a single energy-producing installation but didn't damage the country in any way.
TMI killed exactly nobody. And in fact exactly zero Americans have been killed by nuclear plants altogether. The BP well killed the 11 men who were working on it, but nobody else.
Most importantly, in both cases the enemy-controlled Propaganda Factories, following the commands of their Communist masters, have stirred up a completely fraudulent and completely criminal panic in order to kill a large sector of America's economy.
With TMI, the Soviets unquestionably succeeded. With the BP well, the jury is still out.
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Sidenote: When I say Soviets in the context of TMI, I'm not just being speculative or paranoid as usual. I was an anti-nuke activist in those years and I know where we got our orders. ¶ 11:30 AM
In both cases the real accident ruined a single energy-producing installation but didn't damage the country in any way.
TMI killed exactly nobody. And in fact exactly zero Americans have been killed by nuclear plants altogether. The BP well killed the 11 men who were working on it, but nobody else.
Most importantly, in both cases the enemy-controlled Propaganda Factories, following the commands of their Communist masters, have stirred up a completely fraudulent and completely criminal panic in order to kill a large sector of America's economy.
With TMI, the Soviets unquestionably succeeded. With the BP well, the jury is still out.
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Sidenote: When I say Soviets in the context of TMI, I'm not just being speculative or paranoid as usual. I was an anti-nuke activist in those years and I know where we got our orders. ¶ 11:30 AM
