For the sake of helping Harry Reid stay in office, President Barack Obama is prepared to renege on his promise to keep faith with science, would happily cost utility customers tons of money and — last in this list, but hardly least — scrap the possibility of this country having a robust energy future.

That’s an awful lot to give up for the sake of assisting the election of the Senate’s fumbling majority leader, and guess who doesn’t like it? Members of the party in the majority, that’s who. A number of Democrats are furious about the president shutting down the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada, and they’re worried big time on two other energy issues as well, the Wall Street Journal recently pointed out.

But first, Yucca. The site there has been called the most studied piece of real estate in human history, and if you want to deny it, find another spot that literally hundreds of scientists have spent almost three decades testing everything there is to be tested at a cost of $10 billion. The point was to find out if you can place nuclear waste there without serious danger for a long, long time and the answer is you can because of proof not quite on the order of the Earth being a round globe, but similarly convincing.

Read More – By Jay Ambrose, East Valley Tribune