My prediction: When oil goes over $250 per barrel and grannies start being found frozen to death in middle America, when brown-outs prevent Wall Street investors from trading, when the Chamber of Commerce screams because manufacturers can’t move their goods to market, ...all bets will be off. Even the press will demand that government loosen restraints on coal, nuclear and oil production for energy use. Finally, environmentalists will be seen in the same light as ambulance-chasing lawyers, horse thieves and Jeremiah Wright.
This story has been repeated over and over but I don’t completely buy it. We have > 400 years of clean coal in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming, meeting the New Source Performance Standards of the Clean Air Act. There more clean coal in the Hanna Basin of Montana. Technology will catch up with the high sulfur reserves; Fluized Bed Boilers can use Illinois and West KY high sulfur coal.