[o_zarkman44]

What is wrong with 9 new coal fired power plants in Texas?
I heard about this proposal a couple years ago and I live in Missouri. Nobody is hiding anything here.
As with any domestic energy program. Environmental wackos will attempt to stop development and increase our dependence on foreign oil.

I wonder if owning a "cave" timeshare would be appealing to environmentalist wackos. If so I know there are a lot of caves available. Cash only.

[Froufrou]

What's wrong with it? Ask the survivors who've lost coal plant workers.

[DalcoTX]

Coal plants are cheap to build and cheap to run. Sure they pollute, but isn't TXU's stock price important too? In Texas, we have phony deregulated electricity. TXU/Reliant/OnCor have an ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) monopoly in what was supposed to be free market competition. I think TXU wants to run the other electric delivery providers out of business and leave TXU producing all of the electricity for Texas.