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A: Low Natural Gas Prices key to Revival of U.S. Steel Industry
Flynn  5/2/12
Phil Flynn is senior energy analyst for The PRICE Futures Group and a Fox Business Network contributor, “Low natural gas prices propelling US manufacturing, taxes suffer”, Futures, May 2, 2012, http://www.futuresmag.com/2012/05/02/low-natural-gas-prices-propelling-us-manufacturing

So why is the US manufacturing ..., laying off 140,000 employees.

B. Natural Gas Competes Directly With Other Energy Sources
Mcrae and Ruppel 2011
Gregory S. Mcrae, MIT Professor of Chemical Engineering and Caryoly Ruppel, MIT Visiting Scientist Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, “The Future of Natural Gas”, http://web.mit.edu/mitei/research/studies/documents/natural-gas-2011/NaturalGas_Report.pdf, p.1

Natural gas is important in many sectors of the economy... of backup capacity. 

C. C:  US  Steel Must Stay Commercial Viable - critical for national defense
PR Newswire 07  January 10, 2007 Wednesday 3:29 PM GMT  “Domestically-Produced Steel Critical to National Defense and Security”

The critical interdependence of ...of the U.S. military.

D: End of U.S. Heg is World of Chaos and Anhilation
Ferguson 04.   
Niall Ferguson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Professor of History, Harvard.  “A World Without Power.”  Foreign Policy Magazine July/August 2004

So what is left? ...not-so-new world disorder.

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A: Obama Hurt by the Debate – but still has a slim edge in the swing states
Silver 10/12/12
Nate, NYT Election columnist and statistician, “Oct. 11: Obama’s Swing State ‘Firewall’ Has Brittle Foundation” http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/oct-11-obamas-swing-state-firewall-has-brittle-foundation/

President Obama’s position ... probability of 66.1 percent.

B: The plan upsets Obama’s balancing act on energy, reduces environmentalist turnout critical to reelection
Schnur, 4-9
Dan Schnur, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California; he served as the national communications director of Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000, “The President, Gas Prices and the Pipeline,” http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/the-president-gas-prices-and-the-keystone-pipeline/

Like every president ... into this country.

C: Romney win causes China-bashing – causes a trade war
Gerstein 11
(Josh, writer @ Politico, “The GOP's China syndrome”, 11/22/12, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68952.html)

Mitt Romney says America ...rhetoric is “good politics.”

D: That goes nuclear
Taaffe 5
(Peter Taaffe, “China, A New Superpower?,” Socialist Alternative.org, Nov 1, 2005, pg. http://www.socialistalternative.org/news/article11.php?id=30)

While this conflict is ... interests are at stake. 

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Text:
The United States Federal Government should substantially increase market-fixed production cost incentives for foreign deployment of small modular reactors by U.S. Firms and substantially reduce Nuclear Regulatory Commission and State Department procedural, cost, and export restrictions for SMR reactors to any and all countries with which the U.S. has a nuclear cooperation agreement.  We reserve the right to clarify.

Observation 1 Solvency
U.S. Firms are authorized to develop SMR reactors with Countries the US where there is a Section 123 Nuclear Cooperation Agreement
Kerr and Nitkin 2011
Paul, non-proliferation analyst for Congressional Research Service and previously mvp coach of debate legend Catholic OV, and Mary, non-proliferation analyst for Congressional Research Service, CRS Report for Congress, “Nuclear Cooperation with Other Countries a Primer”, http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/155617.pdf

Under existing law ... common defense and security.”

And the U.S. has such agreements with 20 countries, plus EURATOM and the IAEA.
Arms Control Association, May 2011
“The U.S. Atomic Energy Act Section 123 At a Glance”, http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/AEASection123

Section 123 of the 1954 ... International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

And Section 123 Agreements uniquely solve prolif
Kerr and Nitkin 2011
Paul, non-proliferation analyst for Congressional Research Service and previously mvp coach of debate legend Catholic OV, and Mary, non-proliferation analyst for Congressional Research Service, CRS Report for Congress, “Nuclear Cooperation with Other Countries a Primer”, http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/155617.pdf

Section 123a., paragraphs (1) ...to all of the above requirements.

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The 50 states and all relevant U.S. territories should _
State action gets modeled due to local innovation

Lash ’07 (Jonathan, “Climate Policy in the State Laboratory: How States Influence Federal Regulation and the Implications for U.S. Policy,” World Resources Institute, September, http://www.wri.org/publication/climate-policy-in-the-state-laboratory, TGA)

America has a long ...economy of the future.

States solve energy policy – bottom up approach works best

Nicholas Lutsey and Daniel Sperling, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, 8 (Energy Policy 36)

On the other hand...change will occur.

Environmental policy is delegated now – the plan kills this federalist model

Sovacool ’08 (Benjamin K., Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globalization, 27 Stan. Envtl. L. J. 397 2008, TGA)

Third, other countries continue ... sends to the world.

Endless war

Calabresi ’95 (Steven G., Assistant Prof – Northwestern U., Michigan Law Review, Lexis)

Small state federalism ... the U.S. Supreme Court.

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A. Subsidies are a coercive and immoral action.

Cleveland 2000 (Cleveland, Paul A. Professor of Economics, Grand Theft Auto:  The Immorality of Business Subsidies)
We should also point ... actually committed them.

B. We must reject an obligation to others in order restore the GOLD STANDARD of rights to actually pursue liberty, life, and happiness.

Machan, 2001 (Tibor, The Perils of Positive Rights http://www.thefreemanonline.org/features/the-perils-of-positive-rights/)

Because it is itself ... the altar of democracy.

C. AN OBLIGATION TO THE COLLECTIVE WILL END IN BLOODY DICTATORSHIP AND NUCLEAR WAR.
RAND, 1966 (Ayn, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, p80)

Consider the plunder... an enslaved nation.

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Attempts to manage the world render Earth and its inhabitants as objects, awaiting the subjective United States’ federal government’s action.  This form of dualism renders everything a self-circulating resource at humanity’s disposal, revealing one way of better relating to the world, all the while eclipsing other modes of thought.
McWhorter 92 (Ladelle, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Richmond, Heidegger and the earth: Essays in environmental philosophy, Thomas Jefferson University Press, pp. 6)
The danger of a managerial ...we may never dream.

There is no end to technological thought and rationale – it will continue to find more destructive ways to control life and death.
Beckman 2k Tad: Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences at Harvey Mudd College, “Martin Heidegger and Environmental Ethics,” http://www2.hmc.edu/~tbeckman/personal/Heidart.html.
The threat of nuclear annihilation ... to fabricate convincing arguments?

The standing reserve and the ontological damnation that comes from it outweighs nuclear war--life has no meaning in a framework that sustains the standing reserve and denies us an authentic relationship with being.
Zimmerman 94 Michael: Professor of Philosophy at Tulane. Contesting the Earth’s Future, p.104. 

Heidegger asserted that human ... never "disclosed" by humanity.

Our alternative is to detach and release. We must learn to let things be what they are – this does not mean a retreat from technology or surrender to the inevitable, rather, it means a reorientation of how we relate to the world and the beings within it.
Sabatino 07 Charles J.: professor of philosophy at Daemen College “A Heideggerian Reflection on the Prospects of Technology” reprinted in Janus Head 10(1) www.janushead.org/10-1/sabatino.pdf p. 72-73.

The point of seeing the ... shared gift of world?