Somebody’s Chevy Volt is gonna be out of juice.
Obama Administration Plans To Eliminate Yesterday's Energy: Coal
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Obama Administration Plans To Eliminate Yesterday's Energy: Gasoline
“57 generators”.. One in each of 0bama’s states? Just more proof that 0bama IS “trying”. He’s intentionally weakening America so that even the third world countries will surpass us. How’s that $2 BILLION dollar off shore oil production going in Brazil, 0bama?? Ooops, ask George Soros I guess.
It’s going to be a real hoot when people are going to need generators connected to bicycles just to charge their cell phones. However, it might be the solution to the obesity problem that the nation’s “poor” are currently suffering from.
This article is misleading. Many of the coal fired plants being taken off line are a result of political and regulatory pressure, not economics. Natural gas has mitigated the effects in some areas where it is plentiful and cheap, but natural gas plants were never designed to be main line plants. Without the natural gas plant, companies would be losing money and we would be experiencing brown outs, but they are not the cause of coal plant shut downs.
We are losing modern, low emission coal plants that burn low sulfur coal from Wyoming because the EPA has declared war on CO2. Trees and corn love CO2, its the breath of life for them and completely harmless to us. Anthony Watts blockbuster revelation of today (WUWT) destroys the global warming rationale that drove us to criminalizing CO2.
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This means about 300 less trains (loads and empties), which as a freight train conductor means less work for me, less work for Maintenance of Way personnel, etc. This will have such a huge fallout for the working people that this administration claims to be champions of.
Watch for rolling blackouts just like happened in Texas in February 2011 where Texas authorities were begging Mexico for electric power. The windmills will be idled by weather fronts and there will be no fossil fuel generators to pick up the slack during periods of peak demand. Obama’s energy policies give us the energy reliability of a third world country.
***Facing declining demand for electricity***
I really doubt that. It was 108 degrees today and will be about 105 or more the rest of the week.
Electric companies love hot weather as that is when they make the BIG BUCKS!
“Record number of coal-fired generators to be shut down in 2012”
Hopefully, all will be recommissioned in 2013 with the approval of a new president and administration.
If a Republican administration can’t re-open existing plants, what in heck might else they have a hope of accomplishing?
natural gas prices will go through the roof before too long.
“I will bankrupt the coal companies” - at least Obama is keeping one promise......
I don’t believe that bullshit about the demand for electricity declining.
The shutting down the coal fired generators, yes. That was what the majority of those that voted, voted for.
I doubt if I will because when it reaches that point I will be dead of old age, but, what I would like to see is the sonsof bitches who want to see us living in the stone age again starve to death because they do not have the intelligence to live off the land on their own.
It was heartbreaking watching this man on FOX this morning. He was really distraught. Folks in Ohio and WV need to get some information on there own.
“Mr. Murray created OhioAmerican, and our production began in May, 2007,” said Mr. Piasecki. The Mine was intended to last for at least ten (10) years. Now we have been forced by our own Country’s President and his followers and supporters to permanently close the operation,” added Mr. Piasecki. …
“There will be additional layoffs, not only at Murray Energy, but also throughout the United States coal industry due to Mr. Obama’s ‘War on Coal’ and the destruction that it has caused to so many jobs and families in the Ohio Valley area and elsewhere,” said Mr. Murray. “Both Mr. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden stated that there would be ‘no coal in America’ prior to their elections,” said Mr. Piasecki. “They are making good on their intentions while they destroy so many lives and family livelihoods in this area for no benefit whatsoever,” he concluded.
http://watchdog.org/46251/blumer-company-blames-obama-for-oh-coal-mines-closure