The true costs of West Virginia coal keep rising (Man: insuring, estimates)

[Evergrey]

The true costs of mining coal in West Virginia keep rising | MSNBC

The cold, hard truth is that coal is not cheap. Quite the contrary.

Many of these damages are considered “externalities,” meaning they aren’t factored into the costs of coal-fired electricity. Conservative estimates suggest that if we try to include these costs, the price of coal-fired electricity would easily double or triple.

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

The true costs of mining coal in West Virginia keep rising | MSNBC

I'm sure there are many hidden costs involved with every energy source. This is little more than the usual liberal drivel that tries to blame coal for everything, but that in reality only makes matters worse by insuring that coal is burned in cheap labor countries where there are absolutely no regulations affecting its use. It's like saying we need to avoid coal to save some arctic teat mouses, but we don't care if that costs tens of thousands of American jobs and a lot more Chinese teat mouses. Such amazing lack of logic is typical of the flawed science that underlies all of that nonsense, and appeals only to feel good folks who fail to consider anything more than surface issues.

The big money people are attacking coal right now because they have a ready customer for it elsewhere, and because they want to shove expensive new infrastructure costs onto the American people in order to retool into burning their more expensive natural gas holdings. Always follow the money, and ignore the empty and generally empty minded political rhetoric if you really want to get to the bottom of things.