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To: Innovative
Excellent.

Develop our domestic energy resources.

Idiocy. Our domestic energy resources are already well developed. Electric utilities own almost 3200 electrical generating plants in this country. Coal and nuclear make up 260 of those. Around 2100 are fueled by natural gas, hydro-electric, renewable energy, or other domestic energy sources. The administration is propping up failing power plants rather than letting the market take its course and letting them sink or swim.

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13 posted on 06/01/2018 2:01:05 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

The Obama administration was shutting down coal plants.


15 posted on 06/01/2018 2:09:22 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: DoodleDawg

“Our domestic energy resources are already well developed. Electric utilities own almost 3200 electrical generating plants in this country. Coal and nuclear make up 260 of those. Around 2100 are fueled by natural gas, hydro-electric, renewable energy, or other domestic energy sources. “

That’s DECEPTIVE. Coal and ESPECIALLY nuclear plants are much larger than natural gas plants, and they make up 50 PERCENT of our power generation today. It would not be very smart to simply trash them, as Obama was trying to do.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3


22 posted on 06/01/2018 3:32:44 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: DoodleDawg
The administration is propping up failing power plants rather than letting the market take its course and letting them sink or swim.


Not necessarily so.

Many perfectly viable power plants were seriously hurt by Obama Era regulations specifically intended to shut them for political reasons.

After eight years of Obama mandated economic siege many of these plants have been left on shaky economic ground and are in danger of going bankrupt through no fault of their own

42 posted on 06/03/2018 5:19:30 PM PDT by rdcbn
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