There have been enormous natural gas discoveries in the US recently, enough for 100 years at current consumption rates. We don’t really need coal anymore and mountain top mining is one of the more destructive methods. No great loss.
You overlook one fact. The number one enviro cause is stop Fracking. They are working night and day to kill the gas industry to. Since it is new they have a better chance of killing it because there is not a mountain of precedent.
You seem content to roll over and die. The solution is to make the other son of a bitch die. The enviros must be crushed, ground into the dust, if America is to survive.
Since you’re alright with it, I guess it’s OK for the EPA to tell other people what to do with their property, eh? No great loss, eh?
“...we don’t really need coal anymore...”
Why don’t you go back to bed
until you can think of something intelligent to say.
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“...mountain top mining...destructive...”
West Virginia needs to convert more of its unusable vertical real estate to usable horizontal real estate, even if coal was not involved in the debate.
“There have been enormous natural gas discoveries in the US recently, enough for 100 years at current consumption rates.”
While our refining, processing and pipeline infrastructure continues to rot.
Coal has uses beyond burning to generate electricity. Natural gas can’t replace all of them.
Really? So all those coal-fired generating plants can be converted to natural gas at reasonable cost? And there are no useful derivative products from coal?
We have enormous amounts of every resource that the EPA won’t allow us to develop. Coal generation costs around 2 cents per kilowatt while NG costs around 10 cents. Which is the better producer?
Pray for America
Are you perhaps unaware of just how much of our electricity is generated by burning coal?
“We don’t really need coal anymore” is an absurd statement.