Posted on 06/05/2016 12:58:35 PM PDT by PROCON
How did we not think of this before?
You can almost smell the excitement in the air around the green energy warrior community. The Washington Post ran an op-ed this week from “environmental attorney” Stephen Kass in which he puts forth a bold plan for dealing with climate change and the nation’s stubborn refusal to let go of proven, reliable energy generation via fossil fuels. The big target in Kass’ sights is the coal industry and the nation’s remaining coal fired power plants. With resistance growing to the Obama administration’s deceptively named Clean Power Plan, the author comes up with a more, shall we say… direct plan of action. Just have Washington take over the coal plants and close them.
In the more benign version of his plan he first suggests buying them out, closing them, and retraining all the workers who would suddenly be on the unemployment line.
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The Church of the Global Warmunists?
Or islam?
I'd say it's a toss-up.
Like in Cuba, or Venezuela. Very retro....
Under Bernie or Hillary, I would expect an all out push to close not only all the coal fired power plants but all of the nuclear energy plants. And follow on by closing all power plants that use natural gas. Not sure about if the hydroelectric plants would be permitted to remain open.
When welfare can’t buy heat or lights things will change.
If the nutter environmentalist crowd wants to do something for the world they should commit suicide and stop personally polluting the world with their lifestyle.
"Electricity prices must necessarily skyrocket."
Hydro will have to go!! What about the fish runs and the altered river courses. Not to mention the destructive and polluting recreational boating and fishing unnatural fish populations.
This is what makes liberals dangerous. You take out 1/3 of the power plants (all coal) and replace them with wind and solar sources. Coal/gas/nuke power plants have surge capability, need more power during a hot spell, you add more coal or gas. Wind produces no power when there is no wind, solar no power at night. These people are bat shit crazy!
Stephen Kass....remember the name of that moonbat when the SHTF.
Also, those stupid windmills kill millions of birds, including bald eagles.
It would hinge on the welfare of salmon migrations and hitherto unknown creatures like the snail darter.
We need a federal law that either rejects anthropogenic climate change entirely, or at the very least sets up scientifically testable criteria for such a ridiculously gigantic power grab.
This is just pure insanity as it is now, making laws that provably can never have any effect whatsoever and which are in any event offset by a single erupting volcano or Chinese dam project, and which directly threaten the very existence and operation of the country. It’s nothing but deliberate suicide by verifiable psychotic maniacs backed by IDIOT liberals.
If criminal ignorance means anything, it means this.
There is absolutely ,with out any doubt, no global warming. What is “climate change”? Please list all measurable elements.
round him and them up and throw them out with the illegals
Once the Watermelons get the coal plants, they’ll take a breath, then start working on shutting down the natural gas power generation plants.
At least the communists ostensibly took it over to keep it running, like factories and farms. These idiots are outright saying we will take it to destroy it.
Venezuela, here we come.
I thought the Feds were worried about terrorist’s shutting down our power plants. Now the Feds want to be the terrorists and shut down the plants.
The only approved use of coal will be to fill approved Christmas Stockings
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