Posted on 11/03/2008 6:45:10 AM PST by radar101
well Reid, to save the planet, we are unplugging you
Today coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity production
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/45005
I wonder what Bobby KKK Byrd has to say about this (when he’s lucid)?
Living in the cold because you can not get or afford fuel for heat such as coal, natural gas or even electric makes people sick. Having to pay high taxes, high utilities, high health insurance fees can really make one sick.
bump
The Left Wing Energy Policy: Foreign Oil Dependency. Reid is a fraud
Has there ever been a more unlikeable fellow than Harry Reid? Meaning who would you least want to go out and have a beer with? This guy is the dictionary definition of a turd in a punch bowl. I bet when he was a kid, the other kids in the neighborhood said “Hey what say we go over to Harry’s house and see if he can come out and play”. Then there was a few second pause, followed by the cry in unison “Nawwwwww!!!””.
It is man who is making man sick, Harry. Get rid of people and they won’t be sick.
electricity is on the grid and is fungible.
Right to Warren Buffet and T. Boone Pickens
There were approximately 619,000 wage and salary jobs in the mining industry in 2006; around 136,000 in oil and gas extraction; 79,000 in coal mining; 33,000 in metal mining; and 110,000 in nonmetallic mineral mining. Not included in these figures are the thousands of Americans who work abroad for U.S. companies conducting mining or drilling operations around the world.
Although there were around 1,400 coal mining operations in 26 States in 2005, over two-thirds of all coal mines, and about half of all mine employees, were located in just three States—Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, according to the Energy Information Administration. Other States employing large numbers of coal miners are Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Virginia, and Wyoming. Metal mining is more prevalent in the West and Southwest, particularly in Arizona, Nevada, and Montana, and iron ore mining in Minnesota and Michigan.
That was long ago. Is he still alive or are they just keeping his seat in the Dem column?
What exactly are we supposed to use then? They never seem to have an answer for that. They are not a constructive party...
Anyone want to hazard a guess about how much gas will cost when the coal industry is destroyed?
The Rest of the US: "Reid Makes Us Sick ..."
“Coal makes us sick” - NOT!
Socialism, however, is well known to kill.
They seem to think that turning off the pump will immediately solve all or energy problems. Tomorrow, if every oil well and coal mine were shuttered, the laws of physics will suddenly split apart like Moses and the Red Sea, cars will run on hydrogen, the electricity will be generated by solar panels and the planet will “heal”. They are starry-eyed lunatics who have absolutely no clue as to how things actually work. They are truly dangerous people whose plans will literally wreck the entire world economy and then we will have a more huge problem than we started with. I work with people who actually really believe this crap heart and soul. They are totally obsessed with it and they are true fanatics. They have made it so that we cannot even talk about “the weather” here at work without starting arguments over globull warming. They will get angry and shout and yell that we who do not believe are Cretans and ignorant barbarians. The Islamic Jihadis have nothing on these people....
Steny Hoyer can be seen employing a new technique he learned from speech coach Barney Fwank.
Find one person outside of a coal miner who died from coal. I can find hundreds of people who die every year from heatstroke because they cannot afford to run their air conditioner.
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