AL-MIGHTY PREACHER RUNNING OUT OF POWER

A New York Post article by John Poderetz, a frequent National Review contributor:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03222007/news/columnists/al_mighty_preacher_running_out_of_power_columnists_john_podhoretz.htm

The middle part, dealing with Gore's hypocrisy vis a vis using nuclear power instead of massive financial and freedome oppression to help "save the world":

Fair enough. He believes the world is in a crisis and that politicians must do what is best, not what is convenient.

But what about the Goracle walking through a little fire himself? He knows as well as anyone that the only form of energy that has no effect whatever on greenhouse gases is nuclear energy.
And yet here the Prophet of Doom was bizarrely tentative.

"I'm not opposed" to nuclear power, spake the Goracle, but suddenly he became deeply solicitous of the role of the free market. Nuclear plants are expensive to build, you see, and when the price of gas drops, energy companies drop their plans to construct them.

Given the level of his concern, why would the Goracle not suggest Congress offer enormous incentives to energy companies to build nuclear-power plants?

And since many companies don't even bother to try to build nuclear plants because of community opposition, why would he not embark upon an educational effort to explain to the American people the environmental benefit to be gained from a major program to build nuclear power plants?

Why? I'll tell you why. Nuclear power is an ancient bugbear for the environmentalist left, and Gore is now their leader and sovereign. He's willing to speak the Inconvenient Truth to Power - just so long as it doesn't offend his own power base.