bripat9643
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- Apr 1, 2011
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One of our electric power generating plants burns coal. All the others burn natural gas. The solar generating stations don't burn any fuel.Obama did, moron. Obama's EPA has made coal power plants virtually illegal. Don't feed us that shit about the price of oil, which is almost never used to produce electric power, and the price of natural gas.The federal government never said it was going to shut down coal plants and replace them with solar and wind generated plants. That is a bullshit fantasy invented by ODS sufferers.If you're a business that uses large amounts of electricity and the Federal Government is going to close down coal fired plants and replace them with more expensive solar or wind generated plants...then any intelligent banker is going to want to know if your business model can absorb that additional cost.
And as it turns out, energy costs have plummeted, not risen. The only reason the coal industry is suffering is because oil and natural gas are cheaper options.
Except they all have to be 100% backed up by fossil fuel power generation. So instead of building one power plant, you have to build two, the so-called "green energy plant" and the fossil fuel backup plant.
That's a big money saver!