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“....charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.”

Unfortunate that she has the word “huge” and “all that greenhouse gas” so close together. Makes it sound like the coal plants and other man-made sources contribute a lot to the greenhouse gases.

The effective greenhouse gas effect that mankind contributes is about 0.25% of the total annual greenhouse gases emissions. It is minuscule. I showed my kids this awhile ago by coloring in 1/4 of a copper penny with white-out - put in in the midst of 99 regular pennies and asked “How much does that bit of white affect the overall color of the pile of pennies”?

Note that whenever the greenies talk about greenhouse gases in it ALWAYS in TONS, not percentages. You know - like spewing 1.5 MILLION TONS per day (week, year - whatever). Hey that's a LOT of tons - it HAS to be bad.

[kitchen]

Usually when the enviroweenies talk about coal "emissions" they include all the solids that remain after the combustion process. Ash and fused particles - clinkers - that end up in sheet rock, cinder blocks, and as fill in strip mine reclamation, were classified as "emissions" by the clinton EPA. It is not just some CO2 that goes out the stack. Given that 10-12% of even a cleaned coal is ash, a power plant that burns several million tons of coal each year can generate some significant "emission."