Myth #11: India needs more nuclear power to assure its energy future.
Fact: Nuclear power has been virtually insignificant in India’s energy mix in the past, and will be no more important in the future. India has been generating electricity with nuclear reactors for more than 40 years. Yet, reactors supply only 2% to 3% of its electricity today. India has not built more reactors because they have not turned out to be as safe, or as clean, or – most important – as economical as originally thought. Even if India were to achieve a 50% increase in nuclear power generation (which is unlikely) such a step would only increase India’s overall electricity output by one percent at most, and would only increase India’s overall energy output by a fraction of one percent. That is not a significant increase in the energy available to India and would not decrease India’s demand for oil and gas.
Myth #14: The deal is not primarily about making money; it is about creating a new U.S. strategic relationship in south Asia.
Fact: The deal is primarily about making money. The main effect of the deal will be to pardon India – to remove it as a violator of international norms. After such a change in status, there will be no impediment to U.S. arms sales. This is where the real money is, not in nuclear reactors. U.S. exporters have mentioned selling as much as $1.4 billion worth of Boeing airliners, hundreds of F-16 or F/A-18 fighter jets.
RE:Myth #11: India needs more nuclear power to assure its energy future.
by Sahadevan KK on Jul 16, 2008 11:37 AM Permalink
Anti-people / anti-national MMS Singh will be more brutal on Indian poor after winning Confidence Motion. His govt will be beaten in Parliament.
RE:Myth #11: India needs more nuclear power to assure its energy future.
by Pradeep Kumar R on Jul 16, 2008 11:50 AM Permalink
Do not dream too much Mr.Sahadevan...
Anti people .. Anti National Communists are already out from the Government.. So this time MMS will sail through this confidence motion....
RE:Saale ye agrej desh ko kha jayenge ....
by Jitendra Kumar on Jul 16, 2008 11:32 AM Permalink
Kisko jaroorat hai musibat ko gale lagane ki. Tum jaiso ko hajam nahi kar payenge. Bhool jao ki koi is desh ko kharid ya kha sakta hai.
Congress always likes to go with NDA. MMS jumped to Nuclear Bill to freindship with BJP. Floor idiologist Vayalar Ravi gone to Nagpur RSS karyalay in 2001 to get votes to rule Kerala. RSS always sold their votes for 4 monies.
RE:Congress always likes to go with NDA. MMS jumped to Nuclear Bill to freindship with BJP. Floor idiologist Vayalar Ravi gone to Nagpur RSS karyalay in 2001 to get votes to rule Kerala. RSS always sold their votes for 4 monies.
by Sun on Jul 16, 2008 11:30 AM Permalink
Stupid commies realise only now about it. or is it a case of sour grapes??
RE:Congress always likes to go with NDA. MMS jumped to Nuclear Bill to freindship with BJP. Floor idiologist Vayalar Ravi gone to Nagpur RSS karyalay in 2001 to get votes to rule Kerala. RSS always sold their votes for 4 monies.
by ikku on Jul 16, 2008 11:37 AM Permalink
What idiology the stupid commies has.. they were licking sonia's boooooo....t's... till now and they oppose in Kerala.. Their so called CM in Kerala was a tailor.. he even was not a head of panchayat..but ruling a state.. its the fate of Mallus.. except a few.. mostly are criminals in this party... should be banned like LTTE
RE:Congress always likes to go with NDA. MMS jumped to Nuclear Bill to freindship with BJP. Floor idiologist Vayalar Ravi gone to Nagpur RSS karyalay in 2001 to get votes to rule Kerala. RSS always sold their votes for 4 monies.
by a h s on Jul 16, 2008 11:57 AM Permalink
sahadevan has run out of valid topics to discuss so he is referring old stories which are and will be history like commies
RE:Congress always likes to go with NDA. MMS jumped to Nuclear Bill to freindship with BJP. Floor idiologist Vayalar Ravi gone to Nagpur RSS karyalay in 2001 to get votes to rule Kerala. RSS always sold their votes for 4 monies.
by Pradeep Kumar R on Jul 16, 2008 12:01 PM Permalink
The most irrelevant comments by Mr.Sahadevan.. For your information , Congress never supported BJP in any matters. But the left alongwith BJP has supported the VP singh Goverment.. Do you remeber ?
RE:Congress always likes to go with NDA. MMS jumped to Nuclear Bill to freindship with BJP. Floor idiologist Vayalar Ravi gone to Nagpur RSS karyalay in 2001 to get votes to rule Kerala. RSS always sold their votes for 4 monies.
by Sahadevan KK on Jul 16, 2008 12:02 PM Permalink
See more about Congress and BJP's kaartoot...
RE:Congress always likes to go with NDA. MMS jumped to Nuclear Bill to freindship with BJP. Floor idiologist Vayalar Ravi gone to Nagpur RSS karyalay in 2001 to get votes to rule Kerala. RSS always sold their votes for 4 monies.
by Pradeep Kumar R on Jul 16, 2008 12:15 PM Permalink
We are already tired of seeing your irrelevant comments here.....and you are asking us to visit your blogs.. we are not fools my dear.....
Discuss relevant things with proper feedbacks... do not bluff with your dreams...
After vote of confidence, there will be collapse within commies fronts, now too CPM-CPI though their leaders join hands together but their cadres fights everywhere. Forward block going to vanish together with RSP, and when election comes.. Commies will not get more than 15 MPS.. Opportunits like DMK or(AIADMK)..TDP.. SP..etc.. will support the centre to form Govt, There is no hope for Commies in Bengal or Kerala if they are to face any election now.. fear fact is that Commie MPs will support the Govt while voting, as they knew they will have to pack back their belongings otherwise, and its their last and final chance the people given them...
RE:Commies to collapse soon
by alok kumar on Jul 16, 2008 11:32 AM Permalink
Communits cadres are poor and they fights for them, they will stay my dear.
Chatterjee, who will be 79 on July 25, is also arguing that such a move would cast a shadow on the speaker's office as it is supposed to be above party politics.Incidentally, another senior CPI-M leader and West Bengal Sports Minister Subhas Chakraborty had also written to Karat saying that it would not be correct to vote against the Congress-led government along with the BJP during the July 22 trust vote. Chakraborty, who is also a CPI-M state secretariat member, said the Communists would have to answer embarrassing questions from the people for a long time if the party's MPs voted against the Congress.
Nuclear deal will be a deal for 400 big corporates for India. They are working as flies on sweets around PM Manmohan Singh. They are working against the Left, like allegation against Som da. Chak de Congressmen!
RE:Nuclear deal will be a deal for 400 big corporates for India. They are working as flies on sweets around PM Manmohan Singh. They are working against the Left, like allegation against Som da. Chak de Congressmen!
by Sun on Jul 16, 2008 11:28 AM Permalink
What allegation. Isnt it the truth that the old goat is refusing to resign.
RE:Nuclear deal will be a deal for 400 big corporates for India. They are working as flies on sweets around PM Manmohan Singh. They are working against the Left, like allegation against Som da. Chak de Congressmen!
by Sahadevan KK on Jul 16, 2008 11:29 AM Permalink
Why did write Ram Jeth Malani to Som da?
RE:Nuclear deal will be a deal for 400 big corporates for India. They are working as flies on sweets around PM Manmohan Singh. They are working against the Left, like allegation against Som da. Chak de Congressmen!
by Sun on Jul 16, 2008 11:33 AM Permalink
Jethmalani is a lawyer who will argue even for criminals. Is your Dada like that.
RE:Attn KKS and Narayan
by Sahadevan KK on Jul 16, 2008 11:27 AM Permalink
Nuclear deal will be a deal for 400 big corporates for India. They are working as flies on sweets around PM Manmohan Singh. They are working against the Left, like allegation against Som da. Chak de Congressmen!
RE:Attn KKS and Narayan
by Sahadevan KK on Jul 16, 2008 11:37 AM Permalink
Anti-people / anti-national MMS Singh will be more brutal on Indian poor after winning Confidence Motion. His govt will be beaten in Parliament.
HI, have you guys seen the headline of the story? "Sonia & Co gear up for July 22 showdown".....It again proves that their is no existence of any party called Congress....The reality is only a Woman exists and others are like her pets...and these people are talking about democracy.First demonstrate the existence of democracy in your own party then talk about national democracy. And regarding left they have always back-stabbed our countries interests in every possible way they can and as per the secularism is concerned...the concept of secularism in India is that u talk against the interest of Hindus and in favour of muslims then u r secular. and what's more funny is that people even Hindus digesting their concept and screaming for a so called pseudo secular Govt...God save this nation....
RE:God Save our Nation
by subash bose on Jul 16, 2008 11:37 AM Permalink
Sonia Gandhi is not imposing the leadership on herself. The partymen imposes on herself. Ask your conscince whether the congress' internal support for Sonia is anything less than 95%. Then why do you speak about internal party democracy. By the bye, what is democracy.
In US the support is more or less same for both Obama and Clinton; the show down which we witnessed couple of weeks back was a ncessity in real sense. Is it required for Sonia when more than 95% of the congressmen support her. Calling congress party one lacking internal democracy is a misnomer. I appreciate the role Sonia Gandhi plays in Indian politics. She has installed the most qualified PM of the world. She is up for eliminating poverty and developing the knowledge sector. In no govt you can see such a rare balance.
There are problems w.r.t reservation, the way they handle the administration of higher education institutions.
But the overall effect is much better than BJP or Coomunists.
RE:God Save our Nation
by Nitin Dutt on Jul 16, 2008 11:29 AM Permalink
who is screaming for a pseudo secular govt. We are screaming for a govt. which stands for its convictions and ironically BJP also fails to do so when they scream against a very same deal they intended to sign in a worse manner then what we are getting. This is not conviction.
The Left are confirmed reactionary forces. We can attribute two main reasons for their opposition to the Nuke deal apart from the well-known fact that they are rabid US-haters.
One, they are acting in the interests of China. Respected Security expert and retired diplomat Sri B. Raman exposes the Communists
Two they are trying to communalize the deal so that they can rob the Congress of their Muslim vote-bank. This is exactly the reason they are bringing the words "Iran" and "Minority sentiments" into the fore. They are challenging the government to choose between Iran and USA. How sick of them? Given that choice, not even Pakistan will choose Iran - they will surely choose USA, how we be expected to leave the USA for the sake of Iran!
India is a great liberal democracy and nations like USA, Western European nations, Japan, Australia etc are our natural allies. Fundamentalist and exclusivist states can at best be alliances of convenience, they can never weigh more than liberal democracies.
The Left's assumption that Muslims will take the Iran cue is also wrong. Today, Muslims in India will choose USA for education and employment given a choice rather than Iran or any other Middle Eastern countries. In fact Indian Muslims are as much aware of Middle Eastern nations' exploitative employment practices as Hindus and Christians are. Left's efforts to band Indian Muslims around Iran will surely backfire.
RE:RE:Why is Left opposing this deal?
by Suraj Singh on Jul 16, 2008 11:23 AM Permalink
Myth #11: India needs more nuclear power to assure its energy future.
Fact: Nuclear power has been virtually insignificant in India’s energy mix in the past, and will be no more important in the future. India has been generating electricity with nuclear reactors for more than 40 years. Yet, reactors supply only 2% to 3% of its electricity today. India has not built more reactors because they have not turned out to be as safe, or as clean, or – most important – as economical as originally thought. Even if India were to achieve a 50% increase in nuclear power generation (which is unlikely) such a step would only increase India’s overall electricity output by one percent at most, and would only increase India’s overall energy output by a fraction of one percent. That is not a significant increase in the energy available to India and would not decrease India’s demand for oil and gas.
Myth #14: The deal is not primarily about making money; it is about creating a new U.S. strategic relationship in south Asia.
Fact: The deal is primarily about making money. The main effect of the deal will be to pardon India – to remove it as a violator of international norms. After such a change in status, there will be no impediment to U.S. arms sales. This is where the real money is, not in nuclear reactors. U.S. exporters have mentioned selling as much as $1.4 billion worth of Boeing airliners, hundreds of F-16 or F/A-18 fighter jets, as well as
RE:Why is Left opposing this deal?
by nimit patel on Jul 16, 2008 11:28 AM Permalink
u are 100% right, we will get nuclear power in 2022 but till that with 250$ crude price can we survive in coming yrs??
why we are not using natural advantage of india like, wind, solar and hydro...
i think this politician should sent in jail...
i feel i should not vote any one.. each and every one is equal..
