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Ask me in about 250 years, that's how much coal is left.
That's the point, it will run out one day. Hopefully the state thinks long-term and has a backup plan. Putting all of your eggs in one basket is a dangerous economic policy.
Same thing that happened when the steel mills declined .... people will shift to new employment sectors. Unfortunately, alot of those employment opportunitites were not within WV. Hopefully some vision-oriented politicians and business people can change that as the coal industry shrinks.
I see alot of "coal, coal, coal" chatter in the news, but I don't think that coal makes up a huge percentage of WV revenue. I could certainly be mistaken about that.
I realize that I'm alone way out on the limb with this ....... while there might be 250 years of coal left in the ground, hopefully we're weaned off of coal (in a major power sense) alot sooner than that. Having grown up in the shadow of Shippingport, PA, I don't understand why we haven't shifted away from coal sooner.
Same thing that happened when the steel mills declined .... people will shift to new employment sectors. Unfortunately, alot of those employment opportunitites were not within WV. Hopefully some vision-oriented politicians and business people can change that as the coal industry shrinks.
I see alot of "coal, coal, coal" chatter in the news, but I don't think that coal makes up a huge percentage of WV revenue. I could certainly be mistaken about that.
I realize that I'm alone way out on the limb with this ....... while there might be 250 years of coal left in the ground, hopefully we're weaned off of coal (in a major power sense) alot sooner than that. Having grown up in the shadow of Shippingport, PA, I don't understand why we haven't shifted away from coal sooner.
I agree. We should be investing in conservation efforts first to reduce our demand and then try to get as much power from wind and solar as we can, then whatever else power we still need should come from nuclear.
winter .... sounds good, but the wind and solar energy thing doesn't seem too viable on a large scale. seems to me that nuclear power is the way to go.
david .... so we've sent a huge amount of our manufacturing base overseas, and "Wv Coal is exported to China and India..with that market increasing greatly." this doesn't seem to be a positive trend.
It is so foolish the way WV trys to rely on coal and tourism to support the whole state. Every WV politician needs fired immediately and new blood brought in. There is no excuse for the horrible job situation....areas of the state like where I live in the northern panhandle should have tons of jobs.
America is giving up the Pacific defense to the Indians....building 27 aircraft carriers in Chennai as we speak...
We have 6 aircraft carriers total....3/4 in service and 2 in drydock...
What is happening is this, the Chinese are buying the planet....Africa, USA, Eurpope and Asia...
investment of our dollars going to China and then being redistributed to the world...along with their own capital.
Our population and work force is diminished to the point that having a 'Production Economy is not feasable.
The population on welfare, drugs (legal and Illegal) and socialized police will be easier to control..
True democracy lies in the merging china who has a idea of it and will bring it to their people gradually
and the Indians, who have had a taste of 'wealth example' from the English and will ride the wave of their population explosion with a 'goods/rewards style economy..
We had this from about 1830 until 1980...now it's over for us and time for somebody else to take the ride..
Our future...certanly not as robust as the others because our cycle has almost ended.
To have these expanding economy's, an area must have an expansion of population coupled with education...
We have neither...the answer is to go where this Is happening...many did it here in ages past and learned new customs and languages...
It can be done.
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