Posted on 07/29/2002 12:04:45 PM PDT by backhoe
In light of the attention focused on coal and coalminers over the weekend, let's review one of the more sordid episodes of the late & unlamented Clinton Conspiracy of Criminals...
Review the information in these links, and judge for yourself- was the public interest ripped off?
The Utah Coal Lockup: A trillion dollar Lippo payoff?
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/lippo.htm
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-Coalgate--that ugly Lippo-Klink-Redford connection to tyranny--
-Clinton's Utah deal not justified-WND story--
Energy and Mineral Resources, Grand Staircase - Escalante ...
Utah Geological Survey. ... A Preliminary Assessment of Energy and Mineral Resources
within the Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument. ...
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Interesting point, but if this were truly relevant I would think that the U.S. would now be importing coal from Indonesia as a result of Clinton's actions. I don't think this is the case -- even high quality coal has a very low value per unit weight, so it rarely makes economic sense to transport it long distances. I believe most of the coal that is used by utilities in the Midwest comes from the Powder River Basin in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana.
Anytime a portion of a non-renewable resource is made unavailable it increases the value of what remains. That is why there is a "oil depletion allowance" to deduct the increasing cost of retrieving an energy source. In the existing tax code, certain oil, gas, coal and uranium producers receive a huge subsidy through the percentage depletion allowance.
I may have responded to the wrong person.
The main point was to take it off the market. It would not be available to the market by the time the price may have been practical due to diminishing supplies of the cleaner burning coal.
Anytime a portion of a non-renewable resource is made unavailable it increases the value of what remains. That is why there is a "oil depletion allowance" to deduct the increasing cost of retrieving an energy source. In the existing tax code, certain oil, gas, coal and uranium producers receive a huge subsidy through the percentage depletion allowance.
No argument from me- bearing in mind that I identify myself as conservative rather than Republican.
But that's the point in bringing this up periodically- so it will go across the web, and maybe make it to talk radio.
Thanks for all the effort you put into this research and organization. Well done!
Originally scrubbers were going to be required at some point, but the utilities somehow managed to get that portion dropped, so here we sit on tons of coal while we ship it in from the West. The same thing happened to the eastern coal...There aren't nearly as many mines working in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and other Appalachian states as there used to be.
The Clean Coal technology that is in the Energy Bill would help the mining industry, as well as giving us a source of energy that is relatively low in cost. Of course, Tom Daschle has that bill bottled up.
I would dearly love to collar some of these overpaid News Jackals you see on TV and get an honest day of manual labor out of them in the hot summer sun...
Manchuria ... cheapest coal on earth. It is mined by Chinese slave labor.
I could stand corrected, but I believe the "oil depletion allowance" went the way of the Dodo bird as part of Carter's assault on "excess profits" in the '70s. Since the demise of the allowance, there hasn't been any "depletion" of oil reserves at all! Oil reserves have increased annually ever since, as the Oil companies were forced to earn money through the production of oil, rather than through a tax gimmick.
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