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“Everybody is waiting for action,” Schrag tells the paper. “The one thing the president really needs to do now is to begin the process of shutting down the conventional coal plants. Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they’re having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what’s needed.”
How can we shut down coal power without replacing it, and not run into serious energy problem, and drastically increasing the cost of our electric bills? Heavy users of electricity like manufacturing plants, and every other business for that matter, will be forced to pass these increased energy costs onto consumers.
Wind and solar cannot replace coal-fired power, so it's like and animal rights enthusiast in the White House, demanding we get rid of horses in the 1800s, without thinking it through, and finding an alternative method of transportation first.
we have alternate methods we just refuse to spend money to improve them.
We subsidize oil and coal thousanda of times more than solar or wind. Obviously we cant just flip a switch, but we have to start taking it seriously at some point.
Manchin will have to drop his gun control tirade if he expects to get re-elected, because he now must go on record castigating Barack Obama. Its hard to love the President over gun control while he's simultaneously decimating your states' economy.
The link doesn't really say much other than that we do need to shut down old conventional coal plants, though it didn't mention anything about replacing of the power. I will wait until I hear about the detailed plan for replacing our power source, but it is about time that we really make this change. A number of states have already moved to better sources of energy, it is time for the rest of the country to follow that lead.
we have alternate methods we just refuse to spend money to improve them.
We subsidize oil and coal thousanda of times more than solar or wind. Obviously we cant just flip a switch, but we have to start taking it seriously at some point.
The money is not there. Talk to your congressperson about budgeting better.
Priorities.
“Everybody is waiting for action,” Schrag tells the paper. “The one thing the president really needs to do now is to begin the process of shutting down the conventional coal plants. Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they’re having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what’s needed.”
How can we shut down coal power without replacing it, and not run into serious energy problem, and drastically increasing the cost of our electric bills? Heavy users of electricity like manufacturing plants, and every other business for that matter, will be forced to pass these increased energy costs onto consumers.
Wind and solar cannot replace coal-fired power, so it's like and animal rights enthusiast in the White House, demanding we get rid of horses in the 1800s, without thinking it through, and finding an alternative method of transportation first.
So, Obama is going to by-pass Congress and we the little people, use the EPA to shut down the coal industry....
I see a need to get rid of the agencies that take directives directly from the Presidency.
That is not a Republic. It is a Dictatorship.
I'm sure that as soon as Obama turns on the TV set, and hears abut what this idiot Schrag has said, that he will fire him, unless of course Obama agrees with Schrag. Poor Obama, he's prob just hesitant to say any of this publicly.
The link doesn't really say much other than that we do need to shut down old conventional coal plants, though it didn't mention anything about replacing of the power. I will wait until I hear about the detailed plan for replacing our power source, but it is about time that we really make this change. A number of states have already moved to better sources of energy, it is time for the rest of the country to follow that lead.
If Obama said he loves coal, you and others would agree with him. You only hate coal because you've been told to hate coal by Plantation Democrats.
So, Obama is going to by-pass Congress and we the little people, use the EPA to shut down the coal industry....
I see a need to get rid of the agencies that take directives directly from the Presidency.
That is not a Republic. It is a Dictatorship.
The article didn't say anything about shutting down the coal industry, it said we need to shut down conventional coal power plants because they are heavy polluters and inefficient. Newer coal power plants have much better technology to reduce the pollution they put out....though it is impossible to not have a coal plant polluting.
The answer is to charge Democratic voters twice as much for energy.
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