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+====Energy prices are going down in the status quo-==== |
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+====Krauss 15 ==== |
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+~~Krauss, Clifford. "Oil Prices: What's Behind the Drop? Simple Economics." The New York Times. The New York Times, 31 Dec. 2015. Web. 09 Sept. 2016.~~ |
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+The oil industry, with its history of booms and busts, has been in |
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+on Thursday. The American benchmark was at around $47 a barrel. |
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+====The aff takes away a fundamental element in depressing energy prices- nuclear is key==== |
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+ ~~Fares, Robert. "3 Ways Small Modular Reactors Overcome Existing Barriers to Nuclear." Scientific American Blog Network. N.p., 19 May 2016. Web. 17 Aug. 2016.~~ |
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+The investment outlook for nuclear is made worse by the fact that conventional nuclear power |
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+make SMRs a lot more appealing than conventional nuclear from a finance perspective. |
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+====Increases in energy prices push people into poverty.==== |
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+ ~~Laura Barron-Lopez. "Senators: Higher Energy Costs Could Force Almost 1 Million into Poverty." TheHill. N.p., 18 Sept. 2014. Web. 18 Aug. 2016.~~ |
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+A 10-percent increase in home energy costs could push 840,000 people |
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+to improve their energy efficiency, which in turn will lower energy use. |
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+====High energy prices disproportionately effects people of color and the low income.==== |
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+Wigderson 12 |
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+~~James Wigderson. "Coal Is Racist?" MacIver Institute. N.p., 06 Dec. 2012. Web. 09 Sept. 2016.~~ |
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+If it wasn't racist to do so, I might suggest everyone in the United |
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+not truly serving the minority population whose best interests they claim to represent. |