[backhoe]

I agree.

Assuming you are in Georgia, did you know that when I toured Plant McManus here in Brunswick circa 1963, they burned powdered coal ( had the capacity for coal, oil, or gas, as prices dictated ) and the stack effluent was clear.

No smoke, just the waver of hot gasses exiting the chimney.

I mention that to point out 2 things- the technology has improved immeasurably since then, and have you ever noticed how the TV networks, whenever they have something about the environment or pollution, always show row after row of stacks belching black smoke?

I always wonder what era those date from.

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

The news media dramatizing pollution for to advance their own left wing agenda? I am shocked. /sarcasm

We should use technology as best we can to bring down our demand on foreign oil. Every economist knows, lessen demand and the price will go down (unless the OPEC folks lessen supply correspondengly).

[alaskanfan]

have you ever noticed how the TV networks, whenever they have something about the environment or pollution, always show row after row of stacks belching black smoke?

It's the same with ANWR. Always footage of pristine mountain vistas instead of the vast featureless frozen plain that it really is.

I'm so shocked that the environmentalists feel they have to be untruthful to push their agenda. Shocked I tell ya.