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The 'War on Coal' will be expensive
tyler telegraph ^ | 3/29/16 | tyler telegraph

Posted on 03/30/2016 7:42:52 AM PDT by doldrumsforgop

President Obama openly declared war on coal in his last State of the Union address. And it’s going to be a very, very expensive war.

“Now we’ve got to accelerate the transition away from old, dirtier energy sources,” Obama said. “Rather than subsidize the past, we should invest in the future - especially in communities that rely on fossil fuels. We do them no favor when we don’t show them where the trends are going. That’s why I’m going to push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet.”

By “manage” coal resources, of course, he meant shut down as many coal-fired power facilities and coal mining operations as possible.

As Michael Grunwald reported for Politico magazine: “The war on coal is not just political rhetoric, or a paranoid fantasy concocted by rapacious polluters. It’s real and it’s relentless. Over the past five years, it has killed a coal-fired power plant every 10 days. It has quietly transformed the U.S. electric grid and the global climate debate.”

For families, that means higher electricity bills, higher prices at stores and fewer jobs.

“Coal plant closures harm more than just those working in the coal industry,” wrote Nicholas Loras, of the Heritage Foundation. “Just as lower energy prices save families and businesses money, artificially driving prices higher through unnecessary regulations hits consumers again and again.”

Just one front in the war on coal - the EPA’s mercury rule - has direct and indirect costs pegged at $25.6 billion per year.

The benefits of the rule are calculated to be about $6 million. Mercury emissions are already miniscule, and they’re diminishing.

And now the EPA’s Clean Power Plan is set to make things much, much worse.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: cleanpower; climatechangehoax; coal; doomage; epa; globalwarminghoax; liberalagenda; necessarilyskyrocket; obama; waroncoal
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Likely to be dead bodies as a result, too that cannot easily afford the higher costs for alternatives.

And all for what?

Wish this guy would declare war on ISIS instead and attack it with the vigor he attacks American livelihoods.

1 posted on 03/30/2016 7:42:52 AM PDT by doldrumsforgop
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To: doldrumsforgop

And we take that same coal and ship it to China/India/world for them to burn.

Something is wrong with this picture.

It is not as if clean coal doesn’t exist.


2 posted on 03/30/2016 7:46:52 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Prayer for Victory is the ONLY way to support the troops!)
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To: doldrumsforgop

Thank God this ass will be gone soon. I think the war on coal was a favor to Soros. Bankrupt them then Soros picks up the remains.


3 posted on 03/30/2016 7:47:46 AM PDT by farming pharmer ('Your work will warm you' - overheard in a Soviet gulag...)
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To: doldrumsforgop
The goal is to kill the United States economy by sticking it with extremely expensive energy production

Our coal will still be burnt, it will just be sold at rock bottom prices to Third World countries to give them an edge in energy prices over the US

4 posted on 03/30/2016 7:50:14 AM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Millera)
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To: doldrumsforgop
Wealth is, at its most fundamental level, measured by how much energy you can command. The more energy you have access to the richer you are, individually, as a business, as a society.

This effort to make energy less available, less reliable, and more expensive is at a level of societal insanity comparable to that which overwhelmed the Xhosa in 1856 when the prophetess of doom, Nongqawuse, convinced them that salvation lay in destroying all their cattle and crops. It will not turn out well.

Turning our backs on cheap, plentiful energy from any source is just as bad a move.

5 posted on 03/30/2016 7:50:26 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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Obama promised lto destroy the coal industry and it is one of the very few campaign promises that he has kept.

Yet foolish people who stood to lose their jobs still voted for him.

So many seemed to disregard or failed to see that shutting down a coal mine doesn’t just impact the miners who lose their jobs.


6 posted on 03/30/2016 7:56:18 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Noah: 'When the animals began to pair up by specie and stand in line, I really took notice.')
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To: doldrumsforgop

Watch the IBEW will be all in for who ever the rat’s roll out.
Then bitch about it again for another 4 years.

You just cannot fix stupid.


7 posted on 03/30/2016 7:57:52 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (This time it is serious.)
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To: doldrumsforgop

Clinton has already promised her subhuman supporters that she intends to destroy the coal industry. Better plan on sitting around in the dark a lot.


8 posted on 03/30/2016 7:58:45 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a dump, sewer or "refugee" camp. It's my home.)
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To: xzins

The war on coal is war on personal rights.

Of course the government, our PROGRESSIVE Government is a war on rights.

Take a look at ethanol, if you as a private citizen want to make grain alcohol on your own you are BREAKING THE LAW.

If you own stock in ADM who makes GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIZED alcohol, you are just FINE...

INSANITY


9 posted on 03/30/2016 8:10:16 AM PDT by GraceG (The election doesn't pick the next president, it is an audition for "American Emperor"...)
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To: GraceG

Watch the coordination of media outlets and government to determine those acceptable to run for president.

Eye opening.


10 posted on 03/30/2016 8:14:17 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Prayer for Victory is the ONLY way to support the troops!)
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To: doldrumsforgop

The war on coal is just another part of Obama’s war on America.


11 posted on 03/30/2016 8:16:42 AM PDT by protest1
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To: hadaclueonce

The IBEW has been promised jobs building solar and wind farms.


12 posted on 03/30/2016 8:19:13 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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Thank God this ass will be gone soon.

Yes, because the way things are shaping up all the upcoming alternatives are so much better.

13 posted on 03/30/2016 8:20:42 AM PDT by johniegrad
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“... I’m going to push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet.”

HOW f’n elitist. Seniors have to ruin themselves, just for home energy?


14 posted on 03/30/2016 8:28:13 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. "M. Stirner)
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The IBEW has been promised jobs building solar and wind farms

That has been as fruitful and the shovel ready jobs and cash for clunkers.

15 posted on 03/30/2016 8:31:21 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (This time it is serious.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I own a generator that runs on gasoline, safe for a while I hope.


16 posted on 03/30/2016 8:31:27 AM PDT by askrenr (HOOAH! It's an Army thing.)
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To: doldrumsforgop

“And it’s going to be a very, very expensive war. “

Yes, but not for the elite.


17 posted on 03/30/2016 9:05:36 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: johniegrad

Yes, President Trump will be better than the meatball we have now.


18 posted on 03/30/2016 9:05:53 AM PDT by farming pharmer ('Your work will warm you' - overheard in a Soviet gulag...)
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To: hadaclueonce

Will be interesting. IBEW has sued the EPA over the CPP.

I’m IBEW and the majority are for Trump. That is the message we are sending up line.


19 posted on 03/30/2016 9:07:16 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: outpostinmass2

See post 19.

It took a high level meeting to do it but they did sue EPA over the CPP.


20 posted on 03/30/2016 9:08:26 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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