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A. Electricity prices are declining
Burtraw 8/21/12 (one of the nation’s foremost experts on environmental regulation in the electricity sector. “Falling Emissions and Falling Prices: Expectations for the Domestic Natural Gas Boom” http://common-resources.org/2012/falling-emissions-and-falling-prices-expectations-for-the-domestic-natural-gas-boom/)

Moreover, the boom in domestic natural gas production could have even more immediate affects
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.8 Billion (real $2009) in savings projected for 2020.
New nuclear reactors drive up electricity prices
Cooper 9 (Mark, SENIOR FELLOW FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT¶ VERMONT LAW SCHOOL, "THE ECONOMICS OF NUCLEAR REACTORS: RENAISSANCE OR RELAPSE?," http://www.vermontlaw.edu/Documents/Cooper%20Report%20on%20Nuclear%20Economics%20FINAL%5B1%5D.pdf)

Within the past year, estimates of the cost of nuclear power from a new
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immensely to the cost of electricity and the cost of reducing carbon emissions.
Low electricity prices spurs manufacturing "reshoring" and sparks US economic growth via consumer spending and investment
Perry 7/31/12 (Mark, Prof of Economics @ Univ. of Michigan, "America's Energy Jackpot: Industrial Natural Gas Prices Fall to the Lowest Level in Recent History," http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2012/07/americas-energy-jackpot-industrial.html)

Building petrochemical plants could suddenly become attractive in the United States. Manufacturers will "
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seems like a win, win, win, win situation to me.
Econ decline risks extinction 

Auslin 9 (Michael, Resident Scholar – American Enterprise Institute, and Desmond Lachman – Resident Fellow – American Enterprise Institute, “The Global Economy Unravels”, Forbes, 3-6, http://www.aei.org/article/100187)

What do these trends mean in the short and medium term? The Great Depression
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may be a series of small explosions that coalesce into a big bang. 

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Obama will win the election --- Intrade and Silver projects an upward trend.
Witt, 10/26/2012 (Ryan, Intrade and Nate Silver significantly upgrade Obama’s odds for victory, Examiner, p. http://www.examiner.com/article/intrade-and-nate-silver-significantly-upgrade-obama-s-odds-for-victory)
As Election Day draws near millions of Americans are looking up the latest polls to
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with the statistician who has made a name for himself in projecting elections.

Nuclear power incentives are massively unpopular --- the public does not want to foot the cost.
Sheppard, 3/23/2011 (Kate – staff reporter at Mother Jones’ Washington bureau, Public Opinion on Nuclear Goes Critical, Mother Jones, p. http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/03/nuclear-power-public-opinion-poll)
It's probably not too surprising, given the constant attention it's been getting in the
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term influence on public opinion once Japan's nuclear emergency fades from the news.

Obama reelection maintains the US/Russian reset --- Romney will collapse relations
Weir, 3/27/2012 (Fred, Obama asks Russia to cut him slack until reelection, Minnesota Post, p. http://www.minnpost.com/christian-science-monitor/2012/03/obama-asks-russia-cut-him-slack-until-reelection)
Russian experts say there's little doubt the Kremlin would like to see Obama re-
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If Obama wins the election, it seems likely the reset will continue."

Extinction
Allison and Blackwill 11
Graham, director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School, former assistant secretary of defense in the Clinton administration, Robert D., Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy -- Council on Foreign Relations, served as U.S. ambassador to India and as deputy national security adviser for strategic planning in the Bush administration, both co-chairmen of the Task Force on Russia and U.S. National Interests, co-sponsored by the Belfer Center and the Center for the National Interest, 10-30-11 Politico, “10 reasons why Russia still matters,” http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=161EF282-72F9-4D48-8B9C-C5B3396CA0E6
That central point is that Russia matters a great deal to a U.S
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.S. success, or failure, in advancing our national interests.

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Renewables are competitive now
Tickell, 8/20/12 – British journalist, author and campaigner on health and environment issues, and author of the Kyoto2 climate initiative (Oliver, “Does the world need nuclear power to solve the climate crisis?” http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/20/world-need-nuclear-power-climate-crisis)

However, non-hydro renewables are growing very fast – up 15% in
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dangers and long- term liabilities. It is both romantic and right.

Expansion of nuclear power directly trades-off with investment in renewables
Porritt et al, 12 – founder director of Forum for the Future Forum for the future, chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission and author of Capitalism as if the World Matters (Jonathon, 4/27, with Tom Burke, Tony Juniper, Charles Secrett. “Climate Change and Energy Security.” http://www.jonathonporritt.com/sites/default/files/users/BRIEFING%205%20-%20Climate_and%20energy%20security_27_April%202012.pdf)

The costs of nuclear new build are extremely high. UK governments, both Labour
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out to be a costly gamble for Finland, and for the planet”.

Renewables solve extinction
Wood 10 (Duncan, Director – Program in International Relations and Canadian Studies Program – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, “Environment, Development and Growth: U.S.-Mexico Cooperation in Renewable Energies,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars – Mexico Institute, May, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/U.S.%20Mexico%20Cooperation%20in%20Renewable%20Energies.pdf)
It is by now common knowledge that the world is facing a climate change crisis
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alternative sources of energy is a crucial component of climate change mitigation strategies.

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Text: The fifty state governments of the United States should .

50 State action solves better
Milford 10 (Lewis – The founder and president of Clean Energy Group (CEG), “Federal Climate and Energy Legislation and the States: Legislative Principles and Recommendations for a New Clean Energy Federalism”, April, http://www.cleanenergystates.org/assets/Uploads/CEGCleanEnergyFederalismv3April2010.pdf)

States should and will remain the laboratories of experimentation and innovation on technology and economic
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policy and laws that are more stringent and aggressive than the federal programs.

States can provide financial incentives for energy policy – already being done
Piscitello and Bogach 97 (E. Scott and V. Susan, “Financial Incentives for Renewable Energy Development”, 1997, pg. 33)
Financial incentives for renewable energy development in the United States are set at both the
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promoting further development of the most promising technologies in the deregulated power market.