Illegal Renting in Suburbia (Norfolk, Floyd: taxes, utility costs, safe)

[clamboy]

Originally Posted by ClarkStreetKid

And the money for all of this comes from where? If Long Islanders are already at the end of their financial ropes I doubt any of them will want to pony up some more. And does Connecticut want those bridges anymore?

Long Island Sound Bridge Crossing Study (part 1)
Long Island Sound Bridge Crossing Study (part 2)
Long Island Sound Bridge Crossing Study (part 3)

Riverhead, NY-Guilford, CT
Would be the most beneficial as a gateway to NE.
495 to end
Edwards Ave/over the terminals and youre on 395 to Boston

Our Win:Jobs/Toll Rev
Their Win: Beaches/Toll Rev
And whoever said Nuclear on LI bridge or not needs to put down the pipe post 9/11.

[4StanleyCups]

Originally Posted by clamboy

And whoever said Nuclear on LI, bridge or not, needs to put down the pipe post 9/11.

Amen to that. It'd instantly become #1 on the Terrorist Target Hit Parade, and with the virtual impossibility of evacuating LI in an emergency, it'd be like shooting fish in a barrel.

NIMBYism is justified when it comes to the idea of putting anything nuclear on LI. Not everyone's comfortable with even BNL being here.

[nbres]

Nuclear power plants DO NOT explode and CAN NOT explode. In any case the reactor core is surrounded by reinforced hardened concrete. Those big things you often see are just cooling towers releasing steam. If we had nuclear power here our electric bills from LIPA would be at least half of what they are now.

[clamboy]

Originally Posted by nbres

Nuclear power plants DO NOT explode and CAN NOT explode. In any case the reactor core is surrounded by reinforced hardened concrete. Those big things you often see are just cooling towers releasing steam. If we had nuclear power here our electric bills from LIPA would be at least half of what they are now.

Cool
I'm in.
Can we put it in your town?

Oh wait ...Id still be dead if you live on LI.
: )

C

PS

Wind Farms/Solar/Biodiesel Yes

Nuclear on LI ...no.

[ClarkStreetKid]

One problem with Shoreham was few people were comfortable with the transportation of the spent rods down the LIE.

[jfkIII]

Nobody wants spent rods in their neighborhoods! Don't they have sex offender lists for that????

[Dedalus]

Give me a good price, and I'll live right on top of it.

Ditto for any number of "toxic sites", that pose no real hazard to anyone, unless they propose to sink a drinking water well in their backyard and make Kool Aid out of it.

[KellyFG]

Originally Posted by clamboy

Cool
I'm in.
Can we put it in your town?

Oh wait ...Id still be dead if you live on LI.
: )

C

PS

Wind Farms/Solar/Biodiesel Yes

Nuclear on LI ...no.

I agree, yes to wind/solar/biodiesel...no to nuclear.
Its MUCH more cost effective & WAY less terrorist risk to build wind farms.
BTW I live basically right next door to BNL....there's been a reactor there for 50 years.

[4StanleyCups]

Originally Posted by nbres

Nuclear power plants DO NOT explode and CAN NOT explode. In any case the reactor core is surrounded by reinforced hardened concrete. Those big things you often see are just cooling towers releasing steam. If we had nuclear power here our electric bills from LIPA would be at least half of what they are now.

The concern nowadays is not AS much the operating safety of nuclear plants, as the fact that terrorists would see them as a prime target.

Even if it were unsuccessful, the mere attempt would send people living in that area into a perpetual pother of paranoid panic (gawd, I sound like Spiro Agnew..) about "the next time...".

Then of course there's the question of nuclear waste disposal. Anyone remember the days when LI couldn't even find a place to get rid of our household garbage? Our wandering garbage barge made the news for weeks, or was it months? (where did it finally end up, anyway...??)

[Dedalus]

Originally Posted by 4StanleyCups

Our wandering garbage barge made the news for weeks, or was it months? (where did it finally end up, anyway...??)

Ha, ha! I remember that. Late 1980's, huh?

I suggested to my boss at the time that we offer a "free Caribbean cruise" to customers whose purchases exceeded a certain dollar value, hiding the "just put your other foot in the Hefty bag" part in the fine print...