Reign of toads

Nevada's U.S. Senator Harry Reid and others seeking to curry favor with the green extreme have virtually guaranteed no new nuclear or coal-fired generating plants will be built to provide Southern Nevadans with reliable, relatively inexpensive power in the near future. Not to worry, though. Lawmakers and bureaucrats in Washington who have never so much as worked a summer as a replacement meter reader -- let alone run a power company -- assure us the gap will easily be filled with all the new wind and solar plants due to come on line any day now. True, that energy may cost a little more -- if your heart started to race last summer when you opened your electric bill and found it exceeded $300, start contemplating the number "nine hundred" -- but it's all to "save the planet," you understand. There's plenty of money in Washington's new "stimulus package" to fund any hustler with some fast patter who promises to set up a "public-private partnership" to get new green energy on line. Hopefully all those federal dollars can do just as well this time as when they funded the big "Colorado oil shale" miracle of the 1970s. On the bright side, at least the green extremists can be counted on not to file any lawsuits that might block or delay the development of ...Oh, wait...Las Vegas Review-Journal