TVA had exactly the same problem with cost and schedule overruns of its nuke construction back in the days when all that work was done by TVA employees and not contracting companies. These problems are simply inherent in the nuclear business.
No, No! TVA is a Federal Government Agency and therefore MUST be less competent than private utilities like Duke and Southern Company, no matter what the comparative electricity rates and salaries. "Everyone knows" that government entities are bad and cannot run a business properly. How could "everyone" possibly be wrong?
Our democratic process is so much better now that people must produce drivers licenses to vote. Just as doing that has hugely improved the safety of our air travel.
"It's amazing how we somehow have the ability to cope even in life's worst disasters" said the family's preacher. This is a particularly idiotic statement when Ms. Lowe clearly just demonstrated a desperate inability to cope.
How much power is TVA purchasing and how much do they (we) pay for it?The EPB already marks up the power they get from TVA. Does TVA do the same for the power it buys from others?
Electricity,gasoline and other energy costs are going up, no matter what any of us think or do - including Libertarians. Commodity prices are based upon the international market, supply and demand and with restricted and finite supplies and ever-more demand from growing populations, something has to change. Even without pressing environmental considerations, renewable energy is something we have to pursue, whatever it costs in money. To even survive in the future, never mind prosper, we must stop living in the past.
The Announcement
TVA had exactly the same problem with cost and schedule overruns of its nuke construction back in the days when all that work was done by TVA employees and not contracting companies. These problems are simply inherent in the nuclear business.
TVA
Is the cartoon implying that TVA is drunk on money?
TVA boosts year-end bonuses despite federal pay freeze
No, No! TVA is a Federal Government Agency and therefore MUST be less competent than private utilities like Duke and Southern Company, no matter what the comparative electricity rates and salaries. "Everyone knows" that government entities are bad and cannot run a business properly. How could "everyone" possibly be wrong?
96-year-old Chattanooga woman receives originally denied photo ID to vote
Our democratic process is so much better now that people must produce drivers licenses to vote. Just as doing that has hugely improved the safety of our air travel.
CBL buying Chattanooga's Northgate Mall
The last thing we need now is an expensively revamped shopping mall. Better to shut Northgate down and spend our money on more important things.
Tennessee mom tells police she smothered newborn twins
"It's amazing how we somehow have the ability to cope even in life's worst disasters" said the family's preacher. This is a particularly idiotic statement when Ms. Lowe clearly just demonstrated a desperate inability to cope.
TVA cuts fuel surcharge next month but plans rate hike in October
How much power is TVA purchasing and how much do they (we) pay for it?The EPB already marks up the power they get from TVA. Does TVA do the same for the power it buys from others?
The cost of ‘green power’
L4F,
Electricity,gasoline and other energy costs are going up, no matter what any of us think or do - including Libertarians. Commodity prices are based upon the international market, supply and demand and with restricted and finite supplies and ever-more demand from growing populations, something has to change. Even without pressing environmental considerations, renewable energy is something we have to pursue, whatever it costs in money. To even survive in the future, never mind prosper, we must stop living in the past.
Police: Man dropped cinderblock on newborn
No No, life begins BEFORE conception. Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great; if a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
Town hit by tornadoes bans FEMA trailers
Yet another law for us that doesn't apply to the police.