MODEST PROPOSAL: REMOVE HUSSEIN AND EPA
Posted on 05/10/2012 9:26:51 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
In obscure, blue-collar towns across Appalachia -- places that most Americans have never seen -- generations of coal miners have toiled away at back-breaking labor to power American homes and industry. Now, as many as 200,000 of them who dig, process, transport and burn America's most abundant fuel are threatened by EPA's latest coal rule.
It imposes a standard for emissions that is all but impossible for many plants to meet. It requires coal-fired plants to release no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour.
The only means for many older plants to attain that standard is to install what is known as carbon capture and storage technology. But that's expensive and not commercially available.
"At the end of the day, we just couldn't justify it based upon what that cost would be," says Mark Durbin of First Energy, which owns the Willow Island Power Station in Albright, W.Va., "It would be astronomical to try and retrofit some of older units that really are not as efficient as they should be."
Environmentalists are praising the new rule as a vital defense against climate change.
"We know what fossil fuel damages do to our public health, the health of our kids, our families," said Brent Blackwelder at a recent gathering of Friends of the Earth. "We know the damage it does to crops and to buildings. And now the big damage all around the world is climate disruption."
But coal industry representatives believe they've made great strides in reducing emissions through the years -- now capturing over 99 percent of particulate emissions released during the combustion process. The EPA's proposed rule, they say, sets the bar too high and may force the closure of 20 to 25 percent of coal-fired plants across the United States.
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Of course it could . That is the intention.
New rules on fracking too. From the 'Energy' President.
Not sulfur. Not mercury or lead. Not anything actually harmful. Just carbon dioxide which is to plants and vegetation what oxygen is to humans and animals.
The list, Ping
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Well, tell ya what, Mr. Friend of the Earth......hope you like shi**in' in the dark. See ya next winter.
YEAH...some of the COLDEST states have the MOST COAL Plants...hope they get their windmills up and running soon...here’s a list from 2005
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Existing_U.S._Coal_Plants
All power plants must occasionally shut down for maintenance.
I was just thinking, if they shut down 25% of them all, across all generation companies, at the same time.
Just so the "Friends of the Earth" and EPA will have a "quiet time" to think this through...
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Warning of these closures as if they don’t know THAT IS THE EPA’S PLAN? The EPA’s mission is to pool ALL of the money among their like-minded, NWO socialists and starve the traditional, free-market, capitalist American energy producer.
Yep,
I’ll bet that China, India and all the other developing nations are going to comply as well.....
And then since it is energy, alternate competing and secondery energies will rise right to your gas tank.
Rat bastards!
Wait until these Obama supporting maggots find out they don’t have anywhere to plug in their iPads, oPads and pPads. Their Voltswagens will make nice lawn ornaments.
2008 election-Here in SW PA I offered to email my UMW buds the SF Chron video where “commander zero” outlines his plan to bankrupt the coal industry. NONE would even let me send it to them.
Now they ask me to send it.
Not so modest, IMO!
Kill the EPA!
They’ve been killing us for at least two years, and there is no end in sight!
bump for later read ...
In the meantime, China just keeps on spewing....
No one in the lamestream media is reporting on it, but between strong anecdotal stuff like you post, and the primaries in WV, NC, IN, and WI, I am really, really hopeful for an anti-Obama blowout.
“...Just carbon dioxide which is to plants and vegetation what oxygen is to humans and animals.”
PROVING beyond a shadow of a doubt THEY have redefined the meaning of the word “science”, as they have redefined, or are redefining virtually everything to make the World fit their distorted perspectives.
These are very sick animals that need to be.....assisted.
Send some to Consol Coal in SE PA, too. They control a LOT more than PA, KY, WV, OH and other places.
Miserable merde heads!
The only defense against a changing climate is having the technology and energy to adapt to it (or move)!
Might have something to do with why 40+% of the people preferred an incarcerated Felon to Obama in the Dem Primary out there (ya think!?).
August would be a good time...24 hours of rolling blackouts and dog day heat and folks tend to get a mite agitated as well...
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