Michael Bloomberg pledges $500M to shutter U.S. coal plants

UPI ^ | Updated June 7, 2019 at 6:41 AM | By Darryl Coote

[blackdog]

The same promise worked out quite well for Ms Clinton, didn’t it?

[Gay State Conservative]

I'd bet everything I own that Doomberg,like me,has visited China recently. As a result we both know that wherever you go in China the air is just about unbreathable thanks to coal power plants and factories.Statistics show that China is responsible for at least half of the toxic fumes put into the atmosphere today..and that that figure will rise.

And Doomberg also knows that for every coal powered plant that the West shuts down China opens up 20.

[Fhios]

because saying tough shit to all the american coal workers worked so well for Hillary.

[blackdog]

National policy to ensure a safe and healthy energy sector requires free markets and diverse sources. Putting your thumb on the scale to get the political choice results in disaster.

[phs3]

I cant stand this not even a RINO re_PUBIC_an.

[Vaquero]

We put scrubbers on our coal plants. China? Not interested.

[Roccus]

But our glorious Republican party was more than happy to sell him the “R” brand back in 2001.

Wonder how much they got for that....

[Eric in the Ozarks]

North America can claim 350 years of recoverable coal.
What we need is a Manhattan Project to produce clean coal.

[TheTimeOfMan]

Bloomberg needs to be taxed at 100% of his net worth and made to work in a McDonalds the rest of his life.

For the children.

[TheTimeOfMan]

We do produce clean coal. New coal plants are clean except for, gasp, producing CO2.

[DoughtyOne]

Yep...

[HamiltonJay]

Hey, Bloomberg, come on down to WV, and give that speech to the miners... I DARE YOU!

Coward.

[VanShuyten]

I wonder what size diesel generators Bloomberg has at his many estates.

[Sacajaweau]

A fool and his money....

[olezip]

Bloomberg said the $500 million program, Beyond Carbon, will put the United States on track toward a 100 percent clean energy economy by working with advocates to "build on leadership and climate progress already underway."

We wonder if Bloomberg knows how far an investment of $500 million would go toward improving the technology of coal combustion to provide clean emissions from the burning of coal?

The idea of getting rid of a natural resource by not using it, is plain stupid, is it not?

Spending $500 million on the basis of a false premise does not seem to be very smart.

Investing in clean energy is not wrong if directed in an intelligent, common sense manner.

[HamiltonJay]

Well Clean is relative... Even the cleanest burning coal, with the best pollution controls, still produces a lot more than JUST C02.

Yes its a LOT cleaner than it was not all that long ago, but lets not overstate it.

You can’t burn ANYTHING without producing C02. That’s what combustion is... And that’s why its being latched onto by those who want control... because you can’t clean away C02.. its effectively what combustion is.

[Buckeye McFrog]

People with bank balances large enough to warrant having a private banker. She said they were all loony as a fruit bat. Well, one exception, a well-known local sports celebrity.

[hal ogen]

This wealthy criminal communist oaf is living proof that sewer slime can be elected to office.

[Tucker39]

$500 Large....of whose money? Surely not his own. I was born at night; but it wasn’t LAST night. Another grifter.

[Magnum44]

Bloomberg sits in the Capitol City...

... surrounded by the poorer districts