YES, it's an Eco-lib site, but it explains WHO killed this pretty plainly.
Obama has made it plainly clear what he intends to do to coal, and now it's costing Americans JOBS. I hope the UMW, that spent members money to commit ECONOMIC SUICIDE is listening...
BUILD NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS!>.......................
It will only be so long before economic reality will catch up. Somehow I doubt the “change” most Obama voters were looking for involved shivering in their houses because they can’t afford their sky-high electric bills.
The plurality of our electricity will come from coal for the foreseeable future. Even the Messiah can’t change that.
Not to worry. A few more windmills here and there, a couple of solar panels on the roof, toss in a few CFLs and everything will be fine. Those coal plants don’t generate much power anyhow.
Then they need to calculate the cost of building each and determine how long each system can operate, as well as coming up with a way to maintain the flow of energy at night or on less than optimal days for the solar plant.
Lunch is now free, but it means skipping suppers and paying two or three times as much for breakfast.
CNN positively fawned over the ash spill, repeatedly saying “coal-fired power plant” along with the appropriate descriptors of danger, threat, risk, worry, etc as they showed aerial photos of the ash. They also stated such plants contribute to the unquestionable global warming. It’s clear that Obama’s anti-coal mantra has been taken up.
...and voters in coal-producing states KNEW that Obama would kill the coal industry, but they still voted for him!
What a shame! Coal is our greatest energy resource.
I guess they figured it would be a bad investment given that Obama has said he wanted to “bankrupt” the coal industry.
Come on people!
The price of crude will be back above $80 a barrel before the new plants can be functional anyway.
If you wait we all lose.
Guess we’ll just have to sell all our coal to China.
Come on people!
The price of crude will be back above $80 a barrel before the new plants can be functional anyway.
If you wait, we all lose.
This spill was the ‘3-mile island’ of coal. I worked in the industry before and it has people spooked.
I cursed whoever let this happen because it will result in untold economic damage from envirowackos. Most likely several times more than it will cost to clean up.
Yes, coal is filthy in its original form and an environmental challenge but it was always getting cleaner. Legislating it into oblivion combined with NIMBY people after this spill will leave us with NO power.
The wackos can get off the grid and buy their own solar/wind systems if they hate coal and nuclear that much.
All those electric cars and little or no way to recharge them ... central planning wins again!
About a month ago there were other posters on the Metro showing a oil soaked bird and the caption "Off shore drilling is not the answer". I suppose the answer is to freeze in the dark.
Are we pissed off enough yet?
Sooner or later...
Obama’s pressure on coal, wouldn’t bother me nearly as much, if Obama had an energy plan. But no nuclear plants, no drilling, and this vague funding of unproven alternative energy, is a bet-the-farm strategy on unproven technology.
Obama’s slogan was “Yes we can’t” but in energy, he’s the “No you can’t” candidate.