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Blunt pushes energy plan n Spurring development of alternative fuels through government contracting.
n Eliminating barriers to expanding production of nuclear power plants. Blunt said he is convinced that some of the above measures that were voted down in the Senate in the past few years would pass now because public opinion has changed. He said that when he originally started speaking on deep-sea drilling and developing nuclear power, public opinion was 30 percent for and 70 percent against on each of those issues. Now, he said, those percentages have flipped. Blunt said he thinks it would take only a couple of days to discuss and vote on the proposed energy plan if Congress would reconvene. “We’d like to see (those bills) come back,” he said. “We think this time they’d end up on the president’s desk and offer some immediate relief to families.” Area visits U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt has visited the Joplin area several times this summer, meeting with different groups to gather stories on how high energy costs are affecting the average person. He has met with workers at Hampshire Pet Products in Joplin, with consumers at a Snak-Atak gas station in Joplin and with area public school superintendents during a meeting in Diamond. 
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