And unfortunately once we kill off coal, what will replace it if the supply of Nat Gas or the other sources of power run short. Nothing. We don’t have a plan. All of our eggs are in one basket and the wind/solar basket has a hole in its bottom. Nukes? Heck no. Hydro? Absolutely not. Nat Gas? Okay for now. But nat gas will follow the supply and demand rule as coal dies away. Expect it to cost a lot more to heat and light our homes.
And everything will cost more because everything is produced using power.
BTW, that is the real goal people — to force Americans to use less energy by squeezing the middle class into submission BY MAKING ENERGY EXPENSIVE!
There is that word again : " submission "
I wonder where I have heard that word .. Hmmmm ...
Oh Yeah !!.. Alahu FUBAR !!
We have huge Natural Gas fields and many well heads are tapped and could be opened.
If you google earth the area south of Bloomfield and Navajo Lake in northern New Mexico you can see vast areas of those wells with the dirt roads leading into them.
Our Natural Gas resources are immense.
***what will replace it if the supply of Nat Gas or the other sources of power run short. Nothing. ***
Fifteen years ago the naysayers were running around in a panic screaming doom and gloom that we were running out of natural gas!
I had a copy of Power Magazine and it showed about fifty new power plants going in and only one or two would be coal. The rest natural gas. I wondered where they were going to get the gas.
In 2001 I went to California and passed two new natural gas power plants going up.
In 2002 I again went to California and passed those same half built plants shut down with weeds growing all around.
A few years later they began to develop new gas fields and fracking began to bring on the gas.
A quick look showed those abandoned gas power plants were now being built again.
We need a good backup for power plant fuel and coal is still the best available.