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Natural gas is putting downward pressure on the electricity market – pricing nuclear power out of the market

Rebecca Smith, Staff at the Wall Street Journal, “Cheap Natural Gas Unplugs U.S. Nuclear-Power Revival” March 15, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304459804577281490129153610.html

In the U.S., … alternative to nuclear technology.

A forced resurgence of nuclear power into the market drives up the electricity price – construction and cost overruns are placed on ratepayers before the plants are even done.

Union of Concerned Scientists, The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit organization working for a healthy environment and a safer world, “Nuclear Power: A Resurgence We Can’t Afford” Issue Briefing, August 2009

The cost of … of nuclear plants  (see Figure 2) (Cooper 2009).

Electricity price increases ripple throughout the economy – cause economic decline

Nicolas Loris (Herbert and Joyce Morgan Fellow at the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies) July 23 2012 “The Assault on Coal and American Consumers”, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/07/the-assault-on-coal-and-american-consumers

These higher energy …, and higher unemployment.

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Text: The United States federal government should implement a $1.50 tax on gasoline to be coupled with a commensurate monthly reduction in the federal payroll tax.

Text: The United States federal government should increase the federal excise tax rate and phase-in a price floor and variable tax on gasoline.  The United States federal government should institute an immediate reduction in the FICA tax equal to the cost increased levied by the tax on gasoline.

CP reduces oil prices – net neutral tax is popular and will not hurt the economy

Charles Krauthammer (American Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist, political commentator, and physician, McGill University degree in political science and economics, Commonwealth Scholar in politics at Balliol College, Oxford, Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School) 2009 “The Net-Zero Gas Tax; A once-in-a-generation chance”

So why even think … the tax expenditure.

And, the counterplan avoids politics, solves alt energy innovation, warming, oil terrorism, and the economy – And, the permutation wills the ends while undermining the means - guaranteeing consumers stay addicted to oil – only the CP retools US consumption patterns.

Thomas Friedman 2008 “Wanted: higher gas prices,” The Telegraph-Journal (New Brunswick)

Of course, it’s a …and less powerful.

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The United States federal government should implement a phased, revenue-neutral carbon tax on all domestic production and importation of coal, petroleum, and natural gas.

Carbon tax could be implemented immediately – solves warming and restores US negotiating credibility ensuring international action

Avi-Yonah and Uhlmann’9 (Reuven S. Avi-Yonah is the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and the Director of the International Tax LLM Program at the University of Michigan Law School; David M. Uhlmann is the Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice and the Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Program at the University of Michigan Law School, “Combating Global Climate Change: Why a Carbon Tax Is a Better Response to Global Warming Than Cap and Trade”, Feb, 28 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 3, lexis, CMR)

A more efficient … climate change.

Avoids politics and solves oil dependence and economy

Houser 11 – visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (Trevor, is partner at the Rhodium Group (RHG) and director of its Energy and Climate Practice. He is also an adjunct lecturer at the City College of New York and a visiting fellow at the school's Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies. During 2009 he served as senior advisor to the US Special Envoy on Climate Change, “American Eyes on Australia's Carbon Tax”, Australian Financial Review, 7/12/2011, accessed 7/23/2011, http://www.iie.com/publications/opeds/oped.cfm?ResearchID=1873, CMR)

Australia’s proposed carbon … funding for education.

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No clean tech bubble – bankruptcies and lack of federal support has slowed renewables but the market is stable

Smart Grid News 8/3/12 (“Cleantech investment opportunities to grow (just not where you might think)”, http://www.smartgridnews.com/artman/publish/Technologies_Smart_Water/Cleantech-investment-opportunities-to-grow-just-not-where-you-might-think-5017.html, CMR)

Quick Take: It … are safe to enter."

The plan results in a bubble that inevitably collapses the industry, turning case

Huber ’10 (Kelsey, currently a member of the Young Leaders Program at the Heritage Foundation, “Energy Subsidies Prove Unsustainable”, Aug 5, http://blog.heritage.org/2010/08/05/energy-subsidies-prove-unsustainable/, CMR)

There is nothing …y to good stewardship.

This will eliminate 20 trillion dollars and also disrupt commodities markets—this causes a depression

Billmon ‘8 (Economics Blogger, “The Next Bubble—Where?” 2-21, http://www.moonofalabama.org/2008/02/alternative-ene.html)

Janszen calculates …

 bubbles for a while.

Nuclear war

Khalilzad ’11 Zalmay was the United States ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the presidency of George W. Bush and the director of policy planning at the Defense Department from 1990 to 1992, “ The Economy and National Security”, 2-8-11, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/259024, CMR

Today, economic and … in their regions.

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The government of China should substantially increase funding to the US-China Energy Cooperation Program for the purpose of producing [[insert plans fuel]]

Clean energy cooperation, via Public Private Partnerships, allows for the U.S. and china to develop stable relations.

The counterplan solves the production of renewables better because it boosts investor confidence that U.S. investment cannot generate. That creates job growth and revives the economy and preserves energy security.

Ellis et al 2012, Linden J. Ellis, Devin Kleinfield-Hayes, and Jennifer L. Turner, China Business Review, US-China Business Council, Council Special Report: Energy and Environment Chinese Investment in Clean Energy Chinese investment in clean energy in the United States is still small, but its growth may offer benefits for American businesses and US-China relatons, https://www.chinabusinessreview.com/public/1204/ellis.html

The seven bilateral …jobs, Scissors says.

China US energy cooperation is essential to preserve peace. Energy conflict leads to war and kills cooperation necessary to prevent multiple scenarios for extinction

Solomon 2-7-2012, Richard H., 2012, Solomon is president of United States Institute of Peace. He was assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, “Managing US-China ties”, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/usa/epaper/2012-02/07/content_14551814.htm]//Abraha

Where are US-China …managing US-China relations.

Economic decline causes nuclear and biological war

Kerpen 2008, Conservative policy analyst in Washington, D.C., “From Panic to Depression?”, NRO Financial, http://article.nationalreview.com/376654/from-panic-to-depression/phil-kerpen

It’s important …even greater scale.

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1NC Techno-Cap K
1st The plans green technology is part of the technological mode of being. This turns case because it is this form of thinking that causes Global catastrophe. The judge should reject the AFFs calculative metaphysics that concludes in nihilism and totalitarianism and do nothing

. Zizek 2009, Philosopher and psychoanalyst, is a senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, in Essen, Germany, pg 11, the ticklish subject:

"In his project of 'overcoming' metaphysics, …within its horizon."

2nd The Alternative Solves Fascism and Nazism’s. The alternative is key to resist modernity’s tendency of turning humans into calculative energy resource. We don’t link to your Heidegger indicts –We are an appropriation of the political sprit of Heidegger’s critique.

Lewis 2007, Department of Philosophy, University of Sussex,“ IJŽS Vol 1.4 Žižek and Heidegger Reply to Žižek ”)cp/JRC

Heidegger Žižek criticises those who dismiss Heidegger’s …beings appeared to man, as technological energy resource.

2NC Techno-Cap K: Ontology 1st DA

Ontological Questions are a gateway issue: We are a critique of the ideological- scientific way of thinking that cause blind policies and Nazism. The ontic politics the AFF calls for cause’s ontological blindness which destroys the value of life by altering human’s primordial being in the world

Zizek 2009, Philosopher and psychoanalyst, is a senior researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, in Essen, Germany, the ticklish subject: 14-15

One can now see the ideological trap that caught Heidegger; when he criticizes the Nazi racism … primordial, and that all other modes of the presence of objects are derived from it.