eflatminor
Classical Liberal
- May 24, 2011
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You are not aware of the alternatives?There has been a lot of support for the burning of coal of late, and the insistence that it is economically and environmentally sound.
As a matter of fact there is no clean method of burning coal and the GOP is crying "foul"
for tighter restrictions on coal burning plants.
I am wondering something; How much would a littering ticket set you back in your county, and
is throwing a bubble gum wrapper out the window of a moving vehicle as detrimental
to our ecology as the burning of coal?
I hear a lot from the GOP side that coal burning is "no problem," but where are the stats. that
enforce this belief and is mountain top removal and burning this earthen material a sound
investment into our future?
What is the alternative? Unless you've got magic beans, the technology simply does not exist to replace the use of fossil fuels. I'm sure someday it will but until then, what is your alternative?
Solar, wind.
You really need to read up on solar and wind power. Not only will the environmentalists prevent there implementation on a large scale, the technology simply does NOT exist to replace fossil and nuclear power. Even if you were willing to cover the majority of the Southwest with solar panels and litter the landscape with bird-killing windmills, and even if you were able to overcome environmental objections, the cost is prohibitive. Sorry, you're heart may be in the right place but science simply cannot replace fossil and nuclear power with solar and wind, not at this point in our evolution. As further proof of this fact, consider that no solar or wind operations are able to compete without government provided tax breaks and other incentives. If the science were there, we'd see nuclear plants being replaced with windmills.