"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket"
"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket"
Well, all you union coal miners who already lost your jobs can now join your friends and family as they lose their jobs. Then you’ll all have plenty of time to go down on election day and vote for some more democrats.
when this was reported by fox as a possibility about 3 years ago, I called ed markeys office and the young man who took my call said “fox lies”.
The EPA is an illegal Government operation not allowed by the Constitution!!
WTF America, THIS IS INSANITY!!!
This is satire, right?
The folly of closing working coal plants, while seeing them built abroad in the name of global warming and special interest groups makes just no economic sense. No wonder our country is in the economic malaise.
A power and money grab plain and simple. This is insanity.
Yo. Way, way passed time for some performance standards for government flunkies, starting with Odumbo.
Here it comes bend over.
Types of coal don’t make that much difference in the amount of CO2 they release. Of the 3 major types, on average they produce 2.14 pounds of CO2 per kilowatt hour kWh of electricity. (From eia.gov website http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=74&t=11)
Natural gas, despite the impression given by Obama, DOES release CO2 into the atmosphere. For that same kWh of electricity, natural gas releases 1.22 pounds of CO2.
The difference is: 57%.
So, in this article Obama is going to cause economic mayhem for America, so that, instead of 1000 pounds of CO2 being introduced into the atmosphere, we release 570 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Meanwhile, China, India, Southeast Asia, and most of the developing world, and lots of the developed world, are not buying this stuff. They are driving on full speed ahead with coal. (Which they buy from us for the most part...pure hypocrisy on Obama’s part who knows this.)
IIRC, a megawatt hour is enough to power 100,000 homes for a year. Assuming we have 3 people per home in America, that means 100,000,000 homes will produce 500 tons of CO2 a year using coal, and will use 285 tons using natural gas.
In the meantime, the rest of the world (if using at our rate) is using 10000 tons, and Obama’s dumb economic move will reduce that by 215 to 9785 tons.
By the way, if you had 10,000 tons of water that would be about 2.5 million gallons of water. There’s a swimming pool in Chili that holds 66 million gallons of water, and there’s a not so large one in south Florida that holds 700,000 gallons of water. A pool that’s 5 feet deep, 400 feet long, and 200 feet wide would hold 2.5 million gallons of water.
That’s the same weight as ALL of the CO2 released by the world in a year in producing power for 6 billion people if all were producing at the same rate as the US (which they probably aren’t.)
Enough to fill a not so deep swimming pool that’s not a whole lot bigger than a football field.
And that is causing the polar caps to melt, the seas to rise, destruction and death for all of us.
I’m calling BS on that.
The communists/democrats and Obama are destroying the coal industry for a hoax called global warming. this proves government is unaccountable, and a cancer that must be abolished
global warming is a hoax democrats created to justify the existence and growth of government(socialism)
There is nothing wrong with using coal. CO2 emissions cause nothing
we should be using this coal to lower energy costs for consumers and businesses .
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