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In looking back at when these plants were constructed and went on line then shut down, ours in the Ozarks should be next,, unless they shut the ones down at Muskogee, Oologah, or Inola OK. I bet there are lots of operators of these plants sweating it out.

That is Chouteau, not Inola. The Black Fox nuke plant at Inola was never built.

The OG&E plants have been on liberal exceptions to emissions for many years now by the state. They are nearly 50 years old. I remember when they were built and big news. I was able to get one of the construction managers to speak at the ASCE student chapter meeting and we got a tour of the plant at Ponca City north of Stillwater.

Few people will remember that coal in the 70s was the answer to the energy crisis. A new kid in town. Before that there were no mines to speak of in Wyoming and surely no unit trains. In this part of the country the trains were a big deal. Novel and new.

The plant at Inola has been given execution stays for quite some time now.

Other than natural gas, I really don't know what we are going to do for power.

In 1982 we opened the valves on a group of new Red Fork wells between Clinton and Weatherford that sold into three pipelines. California was so desperate for natural gas we were selling for $9.35 an MCF. True. The geologist on that job got a new BMW that day but I drilled and completed the well and got paid. I always picked up a huge box of jelly, sausage and egg biscuits at Hardee's for the crews when we perforated or did something special. Really great times. Natural gas sells for between $2 and $3 now. It won't stay that way for long. You can go through a lot of quadrillions of BTUs in gas fired plant and turbine generators. The world is being set up for natural gas to be the last real resort to keeping the lights on when the wind don't blow and the sun don't shine.

For years there was the relic of an old gas fired power plant on the West bank of the Arkansas at Muskogee. It died in the early 70s when natural gas got far to expensive to burn for power. These old plants are scattered about still.

Chemical Engineers weep bitter tears to see natural gas burned. It is just too valuable as a feed stock for that.

We will see shortages of the miracle fuels again. It will be worse this time though. The petroleum industry just gets more and more beat up. More and more restricted and regulated.

We are burying ourselves. One wonders if Gates et al are not creating a market for light modular nuclear like he did with WHO and his vaccines? The queer thing about power and money is how people never do get enough of either one. They also don't give a tinker's damn who they hurt in the process, they are always saved. It is just an evil sickness.