To: RightWhale
Then we will go back to COAL, which ran the industry of this country until the mid 20th century. We used it to make gas for light and heat (that's what gasworks were for!) and we can make synthetic oil from it (which is what the Germans did and what S Africa does now).
To: kaktuskid
We have two big electrical power plants powered by it nearby on the Navajo reservation.
Sure hasn't helped the air quality a bit!
Too expensive to scrub out all the particulates. Sigh.
Sunsets are different than they were 30 years ago.
58 posted on
03/03/2004 5:28:04 PM PST by
Quix
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