who is totally incompetent
She struck me as not knowing her facts and having an incompetent way about expressing her economic policies. The 'totally incomptent' phrase was what I gathered would be the extreme impression people would have from the debate. Her finest moment was taking Sarkozy to task over his duplicitous use of the handicapped school issue. Her worst moment was her arrogance in thinking nuclear only produced 17% of electricity when it is the source of 70%, even greater than Sarkozy's stated 50%
Electricity is 23% of final energy demand Thus nuclear, 78% of that (p.9 above), is 18% of primary energy consumption.
(She did say electricity in the debate, but her assertion is correct as far as "energy" is concerned) In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Splitting hairs and I hope she is elected but wouldn't be shocked if the neocons working in tandem with the Muiti nationals were able to elect Sarkozy.
Nuclear is (about) 80% of French electricity production;
and about 18% of total energy use.
Royal should have said 17% of energy, not of electricity, but she was a lot righter than Sarkozy who appears to have picked his number on a sort of 50-50 basis, like, I've got half a chance of being right and half of being wrong.
I've been particularly fond of Royal's bold efforts against nuclear power. This is something the French actually did right, has major international implications (her position vis-a-vis Iran) and yet she is willing to oppose, from an ecological standpoint, in order to encourage renewables.
Whatever happened to nuclear waste, anyway?
