Obama Bankrupting Coal Industry and more...Follow

But... but... I remember the stories that Obama watered down some nuclear safety bill to suck up to Exelon; the owner of the nuclear power plants in Illinois (most nuke plants in the nation!)

I get my juice from Braidwood Nuclear Generating Facility. You coal users can suck it.

I don't like coal or the coal industry.

There, I said it.

You've got to realize, there is only so much coal. We've already stripped up most of what was easily accessible, and now we're having to literally tear up the Appalachian mountains to get to what little remains. West Virginia is gradually being flattened out as they remove entire hillsides and ship the dirt off to other parts of the country so they can reach new seams. We can't do this indefinitely.

The liberal tree hugging hippie word of the day is: Sustainability

Coal ain't got it.

The coal industry is going to die out because there won't be any more coal left. It's up to them whether they want to shift their industry focus over to alternative energy sources, like oil from garbage.

Nevermind all the diseases that come from coal mines, for both the miners and the families who live in towns around them. It gets into their lungs and their pores and eyes and nose and causes cancer and god knows what else. Plus there is the inherent danger of the mine itself; it was just last year that those poor miners were trapped for weeks and died.

So in my opinion, the coal industry deserves to go bankrupt if they can't change. They can either adapt to the 21st century or die out like the fossil fuels they mine.

I got a wikked flashback to the Thatcher years in Engerland just then!

I just pictured clear as day, dear ol' Margaret ranting at Arthur Scargill and Neil Kinnock.

She dead yet? Or stil dementing?

It is in comparison to Coal power, and sustainable aswell.

Ok, 100 years ago,

Businesses were powered by steam engines. Cities were lit by gas at nighttime. City streets had men with ladders going around lighting eaxh street-light by hand.

Private transport consisted almost entirely of horses with various types of carriage.

When we switched to electric power, world-wide these people lost their jobs and their businesses in their 100s of thousands:

Steam-engine stokers
Steam-engingineers.
Steam-engine manufaturers and their factory work-force.
Gas-lamp lighters.
interior gas lamp manufacturers and their work-force.
candle-makers
kerosene gas-heater manufacturers and their work-force.
fire-wood splitters and suppliers.
chimney sweepers,
fire-place and mantle-piece manufacturers.

When we switched to to petrol cars (gas cars), world-wide 100,000s jobs went and businesses went bankrupt in these industries:

horse-breeding, training and sales,
horse-shoe smithing,
carriage-building and maintenance businesses and jobs.
street-sweepers (sweeping horse manure from pedestrian crossings)


Are you seriously, seriously saying we all collectively would have been better off if we had protected all those 100s of thousands of jobs and thousands of businesses, in the face of a compelling reason to switch over and upgrade to new technology? How about the massive asbestos industry? We should have protected those businesses and jobs, right?


Edited, Nov 3rd 2008 8:12am by Aripyanfar

Virus?

I was more refering to the rolling blackout situation they had a few years back that is still ******** with our power bills because california refuses to build sufficient power plants of their own, mostly bcause of their anti salmon chopping up and anti emission and anti bird killing laws prevent them from building anything but solar at this time. Except for those coal fired plants they somehow snuck in when their laws were looking the other way.

Back on topic, it's a bit disingenuous to claim that the tape is "just now surfacing" or has been hidden in any way.

Liberals always taking things to the extreme. I'm all for new power sources, however the technology right now just doesn't exist for us to suddenly wake up one day and cut 52% of our power supply. It doesn't take a genious to figure that out. Not only that, did the US Government come in and mandate and tax to bankruptcy that industry? No. The private sector saw the potential of the new technology and developed it. That is the same way it should happen today. It's something called a transition period that liberals do not understand. Nothing happens overnight and if you want to tax the coal industry to bankruptcy that will send America into a depression (Not to mention Barry's increasing of massive taxes on everyone in order to spend his trillions he is promising.)

I'm not the pawn, you are. Liberals always seem to bring out this "Vast republican propaganda machine". What propaganda machine? Where is it? The media is liberal, print / TV liberal, they want to silence Talk Radio (Hello first amendment), they want to abolish the first and second amendment (Legislature that would do exactly that), massively liberal education system, etc. I could go on and on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvc0tYG_YpA

Liberals always espouse "Alternative Energy" they should say only energy that we currently don't have let's build! But, it doesn't exist in such a form to actually have the country benefit. Not only that, they base legislature on a scientific hypothesis that even among the Scientific community call bullsh*t. Why are liberals against Nuclear Energy. It is easy and safe to store the spent nuclear material, especially since it is abundant and easy to produce. We could easily build 50 new Nuclear power plants, but nope, they won't allow it. I guess they like all of us paying more and more for energy. Even Barry said energy prices will SKYROCKET. There is no way to take that out of context. Keep defending your messiah in the face of evidence any sane person would find outrageous.

Point is, you can't let government artificially destroy an industry that is so instrumental to America that would send us into a depression (His tax proposal will do that anyways...). Get government the @#%^ out of our lives, not tell us what we can do and what we can't. Next thing you know you'll be sent to off to re-education camp for littering by Barry's "Civilian Defense Army" *cough* "Gestapo" or "SA". Whatever, I'm done here, liberal isn't a suited term for you guys, it's more whacko. Defend the undefensible.



Edited, Nov 3rd 2008 1:24pm by AmorTonight

Edited, Nov 3rd 2008 1:34pm by AmorTonight

He doesn't realize anything outside the part where Obama looks like he's saying something sinister.

Enjoy being paranoid for the next 4-8 years.

Actually, I'm Canadian and almost everything that you seem to think Obama will do to ruin your country is already being done successfully in Canada, so I don't see how he's indefensible.