Is a bit funny old media calling coal horse and buggy. We are sitting on an abundance of cheap energy that is being burned clean and they call it out of date.
Talk about absolute and complete ignorance unless you are a believer in Global Warming. CO2 makes the trees and crops grow and the earth happy if they used true science. It is all the cult of fake science.
Just watched former AG Mukasey on Sunday Futures, with Maria Bartiromo, ask why CAIR - a known branch of MB - allowed to review NEW FBI training manuals to insure no offensive terms are used?
Pruitt did not / does not present well on the Fox show this morning.
Base load Electricity requires an INEXPENSIVE - LARGE facility - 500 or better Mega Watts. Nuclear is least expensive, Coal is a very close second. Clean Coal / Scrubbers have been around for the last 15-20 years, very Cost effective.
Natural Gas - provided you have Pipelines to facility is Ok. but is not anywhere as inexpensive as Coal. However these facilities Using JET Engines (Tribunes) are always on stand by for use during PEAK Electrical Demand.
Solar - WAY too expensive, and we do not care how much wild life these kill. 80% of every population is just plain stupid and nothing will change this.
Of course they call it our of date. There's no environmental money to be made from coal. Wind turbines, solar panels, other 'green' nonsense; now we're talking!
It doesn’t even have the dignity of a cult, it’s a carnival barkers scam for money!