It seems like Rep. Patrick McHenry’s answer to the fuel crises and the crises at the pump is not to encourage more people to ride a bicycle for transportation but rather we should invest in other forms of energy such as a nuclear power plants
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For reference the $1 million/year for bikes is 0.03% of a nuclear power plant or at that rate it would take over 3,000 years to build one nuclear power plant or 35 years to build one cooling tower.
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