"Too Cheap to Meter": A History of the Phrase
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... Donald Hintz, Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, said at 2003 conference that the nuclear industry had been "plagued since the early days by the unfortunate quote: 'Too cheap to meter'." Those four words had become a standard catchphrase for what critics claim were impossibly sunny promises of nuclear power's potential. ...

John Hall - Plutonium is forever (live) (1979)
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Everybody's wondering if mankind is cursed
He's ruining the sky and the ocean even worse
But I'll predict the cause of his eradication from the earth
Oh, oh, oh, oh, plutonium is forever

Now, oil slicks someday will disappear
We'll stop dumping PCBs in a few years
But there is one pollutant that we should really fear
Oh, oh, oh, oh, plutonium is forever

But will it go away?
For our purposes, never
It will be here past today
Yes, plutonium is forever

Now, carbon monoxide can only steal your breath
Asbestos poisoning give the workers a horrible death
The aerosol and the Concorde make sure there's no ozone left
Now, some want the oil companies to have to face divestment
And some want the utility to be denied the rate adjustment

But now they're all after plutonium, they think it's such a good investment

Because oh, oh, oh, oh, plutonium is forever
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