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Nuclear waste can be reprocessed into nuclear fuel.  I think they're called breeder reactors.The problem as I see it is that the same people who have convinced the world's double digit IQ crowd that CO2 is a *pollutant*, have just as much moral ground to declare water vapor a pollutant as well.  Water vapor is the number one greenhouse gas, responsible for 95 - 97% of the greenhouse effect.  Anthropogenic CO2 isn't even a blip on the ol' greenhouse effect radar screen by comparison.  And the Supremes ruled that the EPA has to consider all greenhouse gases as pollutants.If a majority of people can be hoodwinked into thinking CO2 is a pollutant, they just as well will buy into a claim that water vapor is a pollutant.  Overstated stupidity has no limits.At least steam from nuclear plants (as well as coal fired power plants) can be condensed and recycled into the water feedstock stream.Now, there is some faint hope on the horizon.  The one undeclared Republican for President, former Senator Fred Thompson, has shown that he gets it regarding the fraud of the global warming crowd, and if he were to officially declare the polls show that he would probaby win the Republican nomination.  And there's no way for the left to effectively censor the showing of the documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle - eventually the word will get out.That being said, those who feel that the railroads will be immune to hydrocarbon minimization are sadly lacking in analytical fastidiousness.  Without coal, the railroads will all go broke.  All the import intermodal in the world will not save them.  Thus, it is the railroad leaders themselves who should be leading the charge to expose this global warming fraud once and for all, since they have the most to lose.  Energy companies frankly don't care, as they can simply pass on the cost of hydrocarbon alternatives onto their customers.  Heck, it is the new environmental regulations that is causing the current spike in gas prices, yet demand is not wavering....<a href="http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2007-05-04T154625Z_01_N04336635_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-GASOLINE-PRICE.xml&pageNumber=0&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage2">http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2007-05-04T154625Z_01_N04336635_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-GASOLINE-PRICE.xml&pageNumber=0&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage2</a>Quote of Note:"This year, companies struggling to retool refineries to meet new environmental standards, have faced longer, more extensive maintenance and serious outages, draining gasoline inventories ahead of peak summer demand."  (bold face mine)Railroads do not have the same luxury, as they are on the opposite end of that spectrum in that they derive most of their high margin revenue from hauling coal.  If nukes and mandated conservation replace coal in the nation's energy array, then that leaves ag products as the only other source of high margin unit train revenue.  And with the Dems in charge, it is more likely now than ever that reregulation of ag rail rates will ensue.You know, if Matt Rose was as obsessed about exposing global warming fraud as he is about destroying the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern railroad, this GW thing would've been put down by now!
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