The estimates I’ve read were %9 of the entire country’s energy production being shut down by these obama thugs. Can someone more knowledgeable please elaborate or correct me?
I think that the correct figure is 20% of coal produced electricity— which comes out to 8-10% of all our electric capacity.
You have it about right.
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The estimates I’ve read were %9 of the entire country’s energy production being shut down by these obama thugs. Can someone more knowledgeable please elaborate or correct me?
And these coal fired plants will be shut down within 6 months. The problem is, even as a "work around," building transmission lines to import power to the areas served by those plants will take a few years to build. Building replacment generating plants could take decades.
Rolling blackouts will be the new normal in many states next year. Just in time for elections.
This assumes that the states put up with these regs, and the power plants operators actually shut down the "dirty" coal plants.
It's getting close to time to "just say NO!" to the EPA.
Perhaps Perry will tell operators in Texas to ignore those EPA thugs. I would support Governor Scott in my state telling the EPA to go pound sand.
Well, how the #@#$@ are people supposed to charge their electric cars in order to get to work? Oh...never mind.
You are correct. About 9% of CURRENT coal sources going under.
Here is what is disturbing. New coal mines in 5 years - 0.
Shutting down now -3.
One billion dollar (10 year project) steel mill in Clairton, PA off the books (US STEEL) because of no coal available from WVA.