Regardless, come on Roger can’t you come up with something better than “skyrocketing electricity bills and rolling blackouts” and coal accounts for “50% of the country’s fuel” over and over? Got any original thoughts?

How about nearly 500 hundred mountains have been decapitated by mountaintop removal coal mining leaving homes destroyed, streams and rivers polluted and buried and pristine wilderness destroyed so you can have cheap electricity?

How about groundwater and air pollution from mercury spewed out by the combustion of coal in communities all over the country? There’s a reason that plans for 59 of the proposed 150+ plants have been scrapped. It’s because people all over the country are tired of having their children’s health bear the burden of your cheap easy energy needs.

And then there’s the massive threat of global warming created by the burning of coal.

Energy efficiency initiatives and renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power would allow the U.S. to reduce energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020 and obtain 80 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2050 (if the dinosaurs in the coal industry get out of the way and actually let that sector develop, unlikely as they continue to fund everything obstacle to climate progress from climate skeptics to corrupt politicians that support their coal ridden way of life.)

It’s called skyrocketing electricity bills and rolling blackouts!

Sure renewables have a purpose, but have you ever heard of base load versus intermittent power?

Renewables CANNOT provide 24-7 base load electricity generation! What happens when the sun isn’t shining and wind isn’t blowing??? Light a candle and rub your hands over the flame to keep warm?

And what happens when you build your wind farm (which by the way requires massive land development and kills rare species of birds) and there is no transmission lines to carry the INTERMITTENT electricity to homes?

And..what happens to people’s electricity bills when you eliminate coal out of the equation and replace it with higher cost fuels such as natural gas? I guess you just don’t care about the people, who even today, have to choose between heating their homes and eating!!!

The answer is investing in the technology (just like we have done to meet any challenge in any industry) to make coal burn cleaner than it already is!!!!

Pathetic……

if you really want to see the impact of coal go to southern west virginia and see how your energy needs are wrecking lives and destroying the Appalachian mountains.

So…it’s hypocritical to bash our most secure, affordable energy source when in fact, each of you use it!

Furthermore…coal is what’s able to help you actually afford electricity!

What’s the answer to that?

And no…I’m not an employee of the coal industry….just some one who is rational!

By the way Matt…since you are so astute on our energy crisis…how do you think we’ll be able to meet electricity demand without rolling blackouts and skyrocketing electricity bills??? Especially since you think that 50% of the country’s fuel can just be eliminated?????

And actually – the DOE’s NETL lab publishes a document every few months called “Tracking New Coal-Fired Power Plants”. Their report back in May listed 151 proposed plants in their databse. But then their next report in October listed only 121. What happened?

Well – check out our report and you’ll see what happened. If 30 were down the tubes between just May and October – we’ll tell you what happened between January and December.

-Matt

As a matter of FACT, I checked the Department of Energy’s Web site and it says the same.

When you look at the numbers of those cancelled versus those approved, looks like the spin is coming from the enviros!!!

Who’s spinning what????

“Formed in 2000 to develop astroturf support for coal-based electricity, Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) promotes the interests of mining companies, coal transporters, and electricity producers. A domain name search reveals that ABEC’s website is registered to the coal industry trade organization Center for Energy and Economic Development. (ABEC originally used the http://www.balancedenergy.org domain but later switched to a website titled America’s Power” (Sourcewatch)