i guess coal will soon be as expansive to heat with as fuel oil... wonderful
Posted on 08/10/2013 8:11:42 PM PDT by lowbridge
Coal industry lobbyists and politicians have been urging the Obama administration to ease up on its regulatory agenda and craft carbon dioxide emission rules that would allow the coal industry to survive.
All the while, reports indicate that hundreds of coal plants are slated to be shut down in the coming years.
The unveiling of President Obama’s plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants earlier this summer stoked the fears of coal supporters who have already been hit hard by stricter environmental regulations.
However, the industry is not going down without a fight.
Coal lobbyists met with White House officials at the end of July, the Hill newspaper reports, to ask the administration to consider a plan that would allow new coal plants to be built.
Earlier this year the Obama administration put forward rules that would have effectively banned building new coal plants, unless they utilized carbon capture technology.
“In Kentucky, coal is not just an energy source, it’s a way of life,” reads a letter from 50 Kentucky Republican and Democratic state legislators, urging Obama to reconsider new rules for carbon emissions limits. “In Kentucky alone, the loss would measure in the billions of dollars — both from declines in the industry and what are predicted to be steep increases in energy costs.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
And the opposition party with the power to defund it all instead funds it hand over fist. there would BE noo BS if the GOP ever did their job.
These are the folks Obama wants to starve — hillbillies you know.
i guess coal will soon be as expansive to heat with as fuel oil... wonderful
GOP? Who are they? An offshoot of the Democrat party?
Exactly! Many of his devotees now say Obama is not keeping his word. On the contrary, aside from a few gratuitous lies that change nothing, Obama repeatedly said what his opinion of the oil industry was and is to this day. Everybody had four long years to observe and absorb what kind of man Obama actually is. Finally they wake up and realize how bad the Health Insurance plan really is? Too late! Their fault for behaving like Union Zombies and Plantation Slaves.
Note to idiots in W.V, Pa, and other coal producing states that voted for Obama. Elections have consequences...He said he would take out coal...he is...now you are whining?
Have a nice day...he’s destroying the rest of us too.Hope you are happy now
Freegards
LEX
IIRC, all done by Executive Order
as a Clinton staffer once quipped:
(making law by) "the stroke of a pen... pretty cool."
FWIW I am convinced the last election was rigged.
NO IT DID NOT!!!!!!!
California did, however.
Kevin.
In California.
This won’t just affect miners. This will cause electricity prices to skyrocket as Obama promised. I’ll be paying a lot more.
Destroying the coal industry is one campaign promise the Fairy Prince kept
As I have been telling the ignorami on this forum for years, the primary coal producing states: Wyoming, West Virginia, and Kentucky voted for McCain/Palin and Romney/Ryan. Furthermore, western Pennsylvania also voted majority against 0bama.
Are you flat out insane? I live in Kentucky on the Ohio river. There are 7 of these plants within 50 miles of my home. No my neighbors, union or not, did not put this puke obama in office. Close them all?? Where the hell will Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, etc., etc’s electricity come from? obama’s f’n windmills?
Used to be. Now they are a (bunch of) ‘members’ in full standing. See McCain and Ghramm for details.
Thank you.
You're right, of course.
But I was being ironic/sarcastic.
Traitors will not Impeach one of their own.
And Dictators are never Impeached. Obama is moving into the same league as Stalin and Hitler. IMO
2 words
CHINESE COAL!
WTF?
Well, the coal-producing states of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee voted heavily against Barack Obama in 2012.
Still, it did not seem to help...
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