It's Happening: 5 Coal-Fired Power Plants Shutting Down

Townhall.com ^ | March 1, 2012 | Erika Johnson

[BipolarBob]

A lot more than five are shutting down. It is insanity. We get more mercury from China that we do our own power plants. Nature puts out 100 times more through volcanoes and vents in the earth.

[cripplecreek]

switching to cleaner natural gas

I smell a bait and switch coming like they did with clean coal. Now we have a growing clamor in Michigan to stop drilling for natural gas which was supposed to be an even better alternative to the clean coal we were promised.

[annieokie]

Well we told them so, and they still voted for this jerk. No crying on our shoulders now, you asked for it you got it.

Vote Republican next time idiots.

[manc]

and the idiots up in PA and other areas still vote for the radical left wing fools because they got flyers off their unions .

[Jonty30]

If there are brownouts, there is no better way than the Chicago way.

[The Duke]

I’ve got it all figured out. Obama’s cronies own stock in “Snuggies”.

[WestwardHo]

Here in the West power plants are in remote areas and support very small communities. If these power plants shut down the whole community dies.
What’s it like in the East where these plants are shutting down? How many supporting businesses will die with them?

[Rudder]

I've got some coal-miner-friends here in the Ohio Valley. They're working...mining coal for China.

I'd like to see a few more Nuke plants to put some compensatory megawatts on the local power grid, but for the econuts.

[Dogbert41]

We are truly running out of time to stop these people from killing us.

[kevao]

Probably not the change they were hoping for. LOL, suckers!

[Joe 6-pack]

In WWII, the German Abwehr tried to infiltrate teams into the US to harass and sabotage American infrastructure. The ability to shut down five powerplants was the stuff of their wildest dreams.

[Kaslin]

Those are probably just the first five

[NoLibZone]

Good! cut all energy to the NE.

[neverdem]

In 2010, the GOP in the average congressional district got 60 % of the white vote. That was a first. IMHO, it gets larger in 2012. The question is how much?

[wyokostur]

Ping

[GeronL]

and when we get blackouts, they will blame corporations and lack of enough billions for solar and wind.

[Chode]

The Sierra Club estimates that these regulations are preventing a lot of premature deaths

that's because people haven't started freezing in the dark yet...

[wjcsux]

Vote Republican next time idiots.
If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you arent't racist, vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you aren't stupid.

[MarkL]

Looking forward to rolling blackouts. You'll have a choice... Run your refrigerator or charge your electric vehicle overnight. Hey, maybe they'll develop a hybrid... A hybrid ice-box/refrigerator. You know, get back to a simpler way of living. Besides, privation is good for the soul. OK, not the soul, since that would be misconstrued as the government allowing religion. Character, yes that's it. Privation is good for the character.

Mark