[rwh]

"Eskelsen said that until the federal government defines how carbon emissions will be regulated, it cannot accurately calculate the cost of building and operating a new coal-based power plant."

Wyoming alone has enough coal to supply this country for the next 500 years. However, the great Global Warming farce will ensure that this country has not domestic role in creating its own energy.

[davisfh]

"...the great Global Warming farce..."

This pretty much sums it up. A lot of people are going to be financially destroyed by this folly and the families of many wage earners will be made hungry.

[TWohlford]

I’m doing a long-term job assignment in Madison, WI, home of every enviro crazy in the midwest. We’ve got a local lawyer who was featured in the local newspaper as he claims to have stopped over 50 coal-fired plants.

It’s one thing to say we’re not gonna build coal-fired plants. It’s another thing to come up with an alternative. I’m sorry, but you can’t install enough solar panels and windmills (at least with current technology) to offset a good coal plant.

In addition, electricity consumption will go up if petroleum products get more expensive. Electric cars take a ton of power to recharge, and electric water heaters and electric heat are pretty energy-intensive too.

[conservativeharleyguy]

"Carbon Footprint" = B**LS**T!!!

And in the meantime, here's China, diligently bringing a new coal plant on-line every week to 10 days. Plus, they plan to expand their current 9-plant nuclear generator fleet to 45 by 2020!!! That’s right, 36 plants in 12 years. They are throwing unlimited money and human recourses at it, and we'll help them do it.

All the while, we fight over who gets to start up 1 new plant. Right now my colleagues and I are feverishly working on licensing packages for 1 new nuclear plant, and 2 new coal-gasification plants. We’re cautiously optimistic that maybe one of them will eventually be approved and built. pretty soon we'll having that fight in the dark. But hey look at the bright side. At least Al Gore and a bunch of lawyers will make more money.

[Carbonado]

The world's top scientists say human-caused CO2 is almost certainly a key factor in global warming

Ok then.

PROVE IT.

There is no CO2 crisis and the greenhouse effects of CO2 on the Earth's atmosphere are largely irrelevant. Humankind is having an infintestimal effect on the Earth's global climate. You may as well argue how many angels can sit on the head of a pin.

[fella]

So this is how a nation commits suicide.

[HangnJudge]

Wyoming alone has enough coal to supply this country for the next 500 years. However, the great Global Warming farce will ensure that this country has not domestic role in creating its own energy.

And estimated potential reserves for Uranium permit Nuclear Power for ~1500 years own energy.