White house: 'A War on Coal Is Exactly What’s Needed'

[my54ford]

Originally Posted by dv1033

Very true.......

......because govt regulation, not because utility and manufacturing voluntary made these cuts.

Because the technology existed to do what the regs said.... Not some "You have to do this but here is no way to do bull sheit...

[dv1033]

Originally Posted by my54ford

Because the technology existed to do what the regs said.... Not some "You have to do this but here is no way to do bull sheit...

What are you talking about?

[LordSquidworth]

Originally Posted by BoomBen

The money is not there. Talk to your congressperson about budgeting better.
Priorities.

It is there. It's going to oil and coal. Established industries still getting subsidies as if they were growing and new technology...

[MTAtech]

From Thomas Friedman:

Sadly, many Republican “leaders” rejected Obama’s initiative, claiming it would cost jobs. Really? Marvin Odum, the president of the Shell Oil Company, told me in an interview that phasing out coal for cleaner natural gas — and shifting more transport, such as big trucks and ships, to natural gas instead of diesel — “is a no-brainer, no-lose, net-win that you can’t fight with a straight face.”

Natural gas emits about half the global-warming carbon dioxide of coal, and it is in growing supply in our own country. As a result of market forces alone, coal has already fallen from about one-half to one-third of America’s electric power supply.

[thecoalman]

Quoting a Shell representative with major interests in natural gas? LOL...

Note the huge supply last year, that's the cause of the very low natural gas prices. If the supply stays low into the winter watch what the prices do then.