The libs won't listen. When their power bills double, maybe they will. We need coal UNTIL the price of ALTERNATIVES is CHEAPER. It will eventually come to that IF the government would just let market forces decide with peoples dollars.
I work in the natural gas industry. We could be running natural gas vehicles at $1.84 / gallon right now IF natural gas wasn't a FOSSIL fuel. Never mind how much we have. Obama wants electric cars, high speed electric trains, for everyone to live in a 400 square foot home, eat only a veggetarian diet because cows produce greenhouse gas. Come on enough is enough. There are thousands of coal mining UNION workers who are loosing their jobs.
Like I said, I work in the natural gas industry it is CHEAPER to drill than make natural gas out of cow manure. Yes, there are enough cows in America that if you collected all the manure in the feed stalls and dairy farms and trapped the gas, you could produce enough natural gas to serve every home in America. HOWEVER, it cost about $4-6 compared to $1.35 to drill and deliver it for 1,000 cubic feet. We have researched this. We can also replace the entire natural gas system in the US with hydrogen gas. However it cost half as much to make hydrogen from natural gas as it does water.
Maybe industry knows better. Research has also been done growing algae in greenhouses for synthetic oil and gas. HOWEVER it costs $4 per gallon to grow and produce right now BEFORE the highway taxes are added.
We are not there yet. Wind is about the same cost as natural gas for power production IF the windmills are in an area that has a consistant steady 20mph flow like the plains states. Not many people live in plains states so the power has to be transmitted over distance which makes in not cost effective due to line resistance over distance. The transmission lines are not in place, and the power would have to be pushed towards the Mississippi so it is only cost effective in the middle of the country. Where do most of the people live? on the east and west coasts, not enough wind there. Also windmills kill birds, more than coal burning does. Coal plants already have $30,000 filters in their stacks that have to be changed often, so soot is not getting out, only the carbon dioxide.
I'm just tired of stupidity.