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Observation 1 is Inherency:
We begin by noting that the Navy is investigating alternative fuels for 2 reasons: long term cost and security, but conservatives in Congress are resisting biofuels.
Reuters, July 19, 2012 (Defense officials defend “Great Green Fleet” cost, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/19/us-usa-navy-greenfleet-idUSBRE86I0B220120719) 

Thus, we stand resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on and substantially increase financial incentives for domestic production of nuclear power in the United States by requiring all US Navy ships to run on nuclear power.  

Observation 2 is Solvency:
The military is the critical internal link to the development of civilian and military nuclear power—the Navy’s use proves it is safe and reliable and the military will develop new technology which will continue to improve nuclear power and will be adopted by civilians and other militaries.  This is empirically proven.
Baracca, 2007 (Angelo, The Globalization of Knowledge in History, “The Global Diffusion of Nuclear Technology”, http://www.edition-open-access.de/studies/1/chapter_30.html)

Advantage 1 is Oil Dependence:
An alternative fuel powered navy would be more cost effective which would make them more flexible and reduce reliance on oil.
Congressional Budget Office, 2011  (“The Cost Effectiveness of Nuclear Power for Navy Surface Ships”, May 2011, http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/ftpdocs/121xx/doc12169/05-12-nuclearpropulsion.pdf)

Flexibility is key to forward power projection which is key to our hegemony.
National Defense Magazine, 2012 (Eric Beidel, March, “Navy Leaders Want a More Flexible Fleet”, http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2012/March/Pages/NavyLeadersWantaMoreFlexibleFleet.aspx)

Flexibility is key to seabasing which is key to forward power projection.  
Colonel Douglas King, US Marine Corps, 2008 (9/19, “Seabasing: Expanding Access”, http://www.quantico.usmc.mil/seabasing/resources/BSSB/Seabasing%20Article.pdf) 

Seabasing is key to hegemony.
Colonel Douglas King, US Marine Corps, 2008 (9/19, “Seabasing: Expanding Access”, http://www.quantico.usmc.mil/seabasing/resources/BSSB/Seabasing%20Article.pdf) 

Loss of US Hegemony leads to a world of chaos, culminating in nuclear war.
Ferguson, 2004 (Niall, Foreign Policy Analyst, "A World Without Power," Washington, Jul/August 2004
Iss. 143, pg. 32)

Oil dependence causes war and funds terrorism, but reducing dependence solves.
Energy Future Coalition, 2007 (http://www.energyfuturecoalition.org/biofuels/benefits_oil_dep_nat_security.htm)

Advantage 2 is Global Warming:
Widespread adoption of nuclear power will solve global warming.
World Nuclear Association, 2007 (“Nuclear Energy: Meeting the Climate Change Challenge”)

Unchecked warming causes extinction – positive feedbacks leads to disease, heat waves, drought, starvation, and the death of billions
Associated Press 2007 (Climate Report Maps Out ‘Highway to Extinction’) April 1, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17889856/)

Observation 3 is the Economy:

Scenario 1 is Jobs:
Nuclear power increases US based jobs.
Whitman 2011  (Christine Todd, Former EPA Administrator, Former Governor of NJ, October 13, “Energizing Our Economy With Nuclear Power”, Virginia Business, http://www.virginiabusiness.com/index.php/opinion/article/energizing-our-economy-with-nuclear-power/314622/) 

Increased jobs are key to economic recovery.
Hall, September 11, 2012  (Keith, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “The Serious Cost of a Slow Economic Recovery”, US News and World Report, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/09/11/the-serious-cost-of-a-slow-economic-recovery) 

Scenario 2 is Peak Oil:
Peak oil will occur before 2015
Smith 7 (Michael, DOE and EPA official, “Resource Depletion: Modeling and
Forecasting Oil Production,” Modeling the Oil Transition: A Summary of the Proceedings of the DOE/EPA Workshop on the Economic and Environmental Implications of Global Energy Transitions)

Nuclear development is key to delaying peak oil – could be used by smaller utility companies, allow for the recovery of more oil and have numerous energy conversion/heating applications.
Ingersoll, ‘9
(Daniel, Senior Program Manager at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, “Deliberately small reactors and the second nuclear era”, Progress in Nuclear Energy, 51, 2009)

Oil peak collapses economy

Lundberg 4 (Jan, environmentalist activist and son of oil analyst, “Here comes the nutcracker: Peak oil in a nutshell,” http://www.energybulletin.net/node/842)

Economic Decline causes global nuclear war.  
Cohen, 2008 (Topical Depression: Bernanke Knows What We Have To Fear, The Washington Post, Tuesday September 30, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092902660.html?nav=slate) 

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Spending lots on biofuels now- would tradeoff with projects like that
Cardwell 12
Diane Cardwell, NYTimes, 8/27/12, Military SPending on Biofuels Draws Fire, www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/business/military-spending-on-biofuels-draws-fire.html?pagewanted=all

When the Navy ... billion annual budget.

Your tradeoff link evidence is terrible- there are lots of cuts coming for DOD but there are lots of ways to make adjustments to maintain heg
Tim Loughran, Freelance Editorial Contributor at 'Virginia Business magazine, “Peering over the fiscal cliff”, October 1, 2012, Virginia Business, http://www.virginiabusiness.com/index.php/news/article/peering-over-the-fiscal-cliff/
Congress can blunt ... more important programs.

Plan solves the budget concerns- supports the goals of enhancing Navy and Air Force tech
Tim Loughran, Freelance Editorial Contributor at 'Virginia Business magazine, “Peering over the fiscal cliff”, October 1, 2012, Virginia Business, http://www.virginiabusiness.com/index.php/news/article/peering-over-the-fiscal-cliff/
Focused now on ...low-intensity conflicts.

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Non-unique or no brink – Oil Prices Falling Now and to keep falling; and your DA does not take this into account – brand new estimate
Levine 10/12/12
Steve LeVine, Quartz’s Washington correspondent, writes about the intersection of energy, technology and geopolitics, a juncture of some of the most important and quickly developing events and trends on the planet. LeVine teaches the subject as an adjunct professor in Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program in the Graduate School of Foreign Service. He is a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, “A big shift in oil will bring price relief”, Quartz, http://qz.com/14859

But in a new ... will also gyrate.

Oil Price Collapse Wouldn’t Collapse Russia – Ruble Depreciation Short Circuits the Impact – Your evidence assumes fixed exchange rates.
Gavrilenkov, chief economist for Troika Dialog Bank, 3/28/12
Evgeny Gavrilenkov, chief economist for Troika Dialog Bank, “Troika Dialog Chief Economist's View - Bear in Mind relativity in uncertain times”, 3/28/12, BSR Russia, http://www.bsr-russia.com/en/economy/item/2216-troika-dialog-chief-economists-view-bear-in-mind-relativity-in-uncertain-times.html?tmpl=componentandprint=1

In this regard... yet to be seen...
 

Russia’s Economy is ready for economic crisis so there is no impact.  
Xinhua | 2012-8-17
(Putin says Russia well prepared for new economic crisis http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/727542.shtml)

Russia could withstand ... effectively," he said.

*No Link- Russia’s economy is dependent on China’s economy.  China is Russia’s largest oil buyer, and their demand is increasing. *

People’s Daily Aug 13, 2012 (Russia’s Economy Dependent on Chinese Economy, http://gochina.scmp.com/business/russia%E2%80%99s-economy-dependent-chinese-economy)
The Russian Minister ... demand of China.

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1. We meet—we’re the most topical aff this year, the government pays private industry to build reactors for its own use, if that’s not an incentive I don’t know what is

2. Counterinterpretation: Government creation of a market is an incentive
Dedeurwaerdere, no date
- Centre for Philosophy of Law, Université Catholique de Louvain (Tom, “Bioprospection:From the Economics of Contracts to Reflexive Governance,”http:www.bioecon.ucl.ac.uk/4th_paper/Dedeurwaerdere.doc)
Here I employ ... reflexive implementation processes (Ibid, p. 14; p. 73).

3. We meet the counterinterpretation—the plan is a creation of a market by the central government.  

4. Counterinterpretation: Incentives include anything which spurs action
TBA 07
(“Team Building Activities”, www.teambuildingactivities.net/team-building-incentives.htm)
An incentive is ... at the workplace.

5. We meet the counterinterpretation—the plan spurs the Navy to shift to nuclear fuels and also creates a civilian nuclear renaissance, that’s the Baracca evidence.  

6. Our interpretations are the best in the round because their interpretation limits out any government run programs which is incredibly restrictive on the affirmative—their interpretation limits out military SMR affs which is what 80% of the affs on the topic are, and also makes it difficult to do wind and solar affs because much of the industry needs to be propped up by government purchasing.  The government is the single largest consumer of energy in the US which means they are core ground for the affirmative.  If you can’t create a government market the topic is undebateable and looks nothing like what the topic paper proposed.  This turns all of their limits and ground arguments which is the internal link to their education arguments.

7. No abuse—we still meet the “reduce restrictions” part of the topic because we change the FY 2013 budget which restricts nuclear reactors to aircraft carriers and expand them to cruisers and destroyers which is an on face reduction in restrictions.  

Congressional Research Service, 2010 (“Navy Nuclear-Powered Surface Ships: Background, Issues, and Options for Congress”, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL33946.pdf)
The Navy studied ... than aircraft carriers.

8. No abuse—even if they win that the aff’s not as topical as it could be, there’s ample topic-based ground to attack the affirmative—we read a warming advantage, a heg advantage, and an econ advantage, and we directly claim a decrease in the amount of oil consumed, which is all great neg ground.  Don’t punish us when we’re giving them links to disads.

9.  Reasonability checks—even if you think their interpretation is a little better than ours, as long as you think we’re generally topical, you shouldn’t vote neg on topicality.  You shouldn’t vote on competing interpretations in a novice debate because we’re still not fully up on the technical aspects of debate which makes it just a race to the bottom for who can read the most restrictive interpretation.  That’s bad for debate because it means debate will devolve into everyone reading the same aff which we all agree is topical—that’s boring and no one would stay in debate.  Default to reasonability to preserve aff flexibility.

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1. We meet—all the energy is produced on board US Naval ships which are US sovereign territory.
   US Navy, no date (http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/carriers/cv-why.asp)
   The carrier battle ... is the nearest carrier?"

More evidence
Free Legal Dictionary, no date ( http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/U.S.+territories)
Finally, land used ... and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

2. No abuse—even if they win that the aff’s not as topical as it could be, there’s ample topic-based ground to attack the affirmative—we read a warming advantage, a heg advantage, and an econ advantage, and we directly claim a decrease in the amount of oil consumed, which is all great neg ground.  You shouldn’t punish us when we’re giving them disad links.  

3.  Reasonability checks—even if you think their interpretation is a little better than ours, as long as you think we’re generally topical, you shouldn’t vote neg on topicality.  You shouldn’t vote on competing interpretations in a novice debate because we’re still not fully up on the technical aspects of debate which makes it just a race to the bottom for who can read the most restrictive interpretation.  That’s bad for debate because it means novice debate will devolve into everyone reading the same aff which we all agree is topical—that’s boring and no one would stay in debate.  Default to reasonability to preserve aff flexibility.

4. Even if they’re right and the US Navy is actually a rogue actor not under US sovereignty, the restrictions on energy production are still reduced in the United States because we reverse a budget limit which makes it impossible to put nukes on the ships we claim.  Our interpretation is that the restrictions must be reduced in the United States which is more precise and thus better for debate.  

Congressional Research Service, 2010 (“Navy Nuclear-Powered Surface Ships: Background, Issues, and Options for Congress”, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL33946.pdf)
The Navy studied ...  than aircraft carriers.

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1.  Deal won’t pass – election didn’t change anything
 Barno et. al, 11/8
 (David. E, Lt. Gen (Ret) senior advisor and senior fellow; Nora Bensahel, deputy director of studies and a senior fellow; Joel Smith and Jacob Stokes, research assistants - Center for a New American Security. “"Countdown to Sequestration: Why American Leaders Could Jump Off the Fiscal Cliff," November 8, 2012. http://www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_CountdownToSequestration_policybrief.pdf)

2.                      Deal Won’t Pass –political studies shows partisanship will continue in the lame duck session.

Binder 10/3
 Sarah, professor of politics @ GW, expert on Congress and legislative politics, her work includes studies of the politics of the Senate filibuster, the causes and consequences of legislative gridlock, “Over the Fiscal Cliff, by Hugo First (and Betty Won’t)”, The Monkey Cage, http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/10/03/over-the-fiscal-cliff-by-hugo-first-and-betty-wont/

3. Military spending is lynchpin to debt deal for Republicans
   Chu, 11/8

Judy, member of the House Small Business Committee, The Hill, "Fiscal responsibility, not sequestration, is the goal," November 8, 2012. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/campaign/266883-fiscal-responsibility-not-sequestration-is-the-goal

4.        And, bipartisanship key to deal
 Davis and Dorning, 11/7
 (Julie Hirschfeld and Mike, reporters at Bloomberg, "Obama Success on Fiscal Cliff May Hinge on Congress Ties," November 7, 2012. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2012-11-08/obama-success-on-fiscal-cliff-may-hinge-on-better-congress-ties.html)

5.  No Impact–no immediate effect AND fiscal cliff will be inevitably reversed
 Fernholz, 10/3
 Tim Fernholz, business and state reporter for quartz, “Maybe the fiscal cliff was actually a stroke of genius”,  posted 10/3/12, accessed 10/24/12 by tom o’gorman, http://qz.com/19056

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Thus, we stand resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on and substantially increase financial incentives for domestic production of nuclear power in the United States by requiring all US Navy cruisers and destroyers to run on nuclear power.  

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Peak oil will occur before 2015
Smith 7 (Michael, DOE and EPA official, “Resource Depletion: Modeling and
Forecasting Oil Production,” Modeling the Oil Transition: A Summary of the Proceedings of the DOE/EPA Workshop on the Economic and Environmental Implications of Global Energy Transitions)
Taking all of the above... time is short.

Nuclear development is key to delaying peak oil – could be used by smaller utility companies, allow for the recovery of more oil and have numerous energy conversion/heating applications.
Ingersoll, ‘9
(Daniel, Senior Program Manager at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, “Deliberately small reactors and the second nuclear era”, Progress in Nuclear Energy, 51, 2009, RSR)
It is likely... advantages discussed earlier. 

Oil peak collapses economy

Lundberg 4 (Jan, environmentalist activist and son of oil analyst, “Here comes the nutcracker: Peak oil in a nutshell,” http://www.energybulletin.net/node/842) KGH
The end of ... fill the shoes. 

Cross Apply Cohen 2008, Econ Collapse leads to global nuclear war.