Obama Bankrupting Coal Industry and more...Follow

Wasn't the coal industry going bankrupt anyway?

It went up in the last two years?

Also, this is only bad news for the East Coast, which deserves it anyway, because Smash lives there.

Who the fuck told you I was a liberal?

If it was just a guess on your part, your libe-radar needs a tuneup.

Also, you're an ijit.

No, I live out in Oregon (the eastern half) where we get most of our power from killing salmon trying to spawn.

And a little bit of wind and maybe some nuclear.

Apparently our salmon are too stupid for that. I'd blame "No Child Left Behind", but then Amor would confuse me for a liberal again.

I'm all for more Nuclear plants though. And they are building this big wind farm up here, and that will bring more work for me since we would make the metals for it.

Less coal = more job security for me!

They could make a zero emmission coal powerplant if they were willing to invest the money and if regulation required it. You would basically have a building aboutt he size of your generaor dedicated to air scrubbing. Think Catylitic converters, but on a massive scale, probably followed by electrostatic seperation for the rest of the particulate matter, and then pump the remaining exhaust gasses through an algae farm, then use the algae for biomass for biofuels.

A nuclear power plant would be far cheaper, and far less polluting. The current generation pebble bed reactors literally cannot go critical even if they lose coolant and are running at full capacity. The waste material is a problem, but it is less of a problem than coal residue, and I would bet money we are less than a generation away from a working Fusion reactor, in which case, problem solved, you feed the fission waste into the fusion reactor and let it take care of the waste for us.

The coal companies really have it coming though. They treat their workers like ****, they don't make a good faith effort to restore the land in most cases, and have been tring to ***** us all over for years is finally starting to catch up to them.

Wait, why would the East try to steal power from California? They are the ones with the big energy issues. If anything they'd come after us!

Stay away you dirty californians.

Do you know what "living in the dark" means. If you bankrupt an industry that supplies 52% of the energy in the US what do you think is going to happen? Besides Barry saying "Energy prices will necessarily skyrocket" "If someone wants to build a coal plant they can, but it will bankrupt them" It's HIS OWN WORDS.


To my teenage mind, it sounds like he is trying to encourage a cleaner way of providing power. Is that a bad thing?

52% is a rather dirty and environmentally hostile way to produce energy for the U.S. Greenhouse gases anyone?

I support the green credit idea. We may help stop global warming.

As for those coal miners out of a job, I hear there are openings flipping burgers at McDonald's or as a greater at Walmart. Should be as easy as mining coal.

Obama didn't say he was bankrupting the coal industry, you dolt. He said that energy companies building new coal-fired power plants without using new technology to scrub the emissions would bankrupt the plant due to the cost of emission credits.

It's hilarious how every time Obama talks about clean coal or liquified coal or whatever it's "OMG Obama is in the pocket of the coal industry!" and when he talks about things like this it's "OMG Obama is going to bankrupt coal!!". It's neither, really.

He hates new technology because hardcore right-wingers hate anything new that might change any aspect of their lives or the country they live in.

It's like you choose words at random and then just smash them together.

Fusion is!

And hydroelectric and wind powerplants never need replacing!