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[LEFT]PITTSBURGH (AP) — In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal.
It means that one day when the natural gas gets turned off( and it will), we will have vast piles of coal, and no power plants to use it in. You can't build coal fired power plants overnight.
Economy is in dire straights is what it means. It also means with everybody switching to nat gas the price will skyrocket. Yippee. Then the greenies will find something wrong with natural gas next. Hopefully the EPA will be conrolled by folks with common sense when that occurs or the whales will start hiding.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years, and government officials say the biggest reason is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal.
I am not of the left but Obama did say he would break the coal companies and with EPA he has been very truthful in that. I wonder how many of those plants changed over to make the air cleaner and how many of them couldn't afford the changes necessary to keep the EPA happy.
it means we do not build anything anymore and do not need power to run factories amnd that people are out of work
Exactly, this is not a good sign. It's a direct result of less energy consumption in manufacturing, less goods being transported, less people driving to work or anywhere else etc. .
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