This nonsense is almost over. After January, Romney can reopen some coal plants, and get us to drilling more natural gas to replace them. It can be done without any wasteful grants to bankrupt greens.
At this point the price of natural gas is so low, it may make business sense to close coal fired units. the problem is the last time the utilities did this in the early 90’s they forced the price of natural gas so high the combustion turbines were too expensive for some utiliites to operate.