In Montana, West Virginia, and the rest of the United States, coal is definitely the electricity source of the foreseeable future. |
It was slipped in so quietly, nobody quite knew what was going on till the new standard took effect and the new toilets started appearing. |
The environmental and economic costs of wind power will always keep it as a marginal energy source unless it becomes more heavily subsidized by taxpayers than it already is. |
The future of coal is clean. Of course, coal is presently very clean as well. Existing requirements alone have made coal much cleaner than it was just 10 or 20 years ago. |
The Republicans will take the blame because it's happening on their watch. |
The world is full of tradeoffs, and sometimes 'renewable power' activists fail to recognize that. Solar energy collectors must displace a tremendous amount of natural landscape to produce any significant amount of energy. And anything less requires a great deal of financial expenditures for very little and very inconsistent power. |
There has been anger at times over high gas prices in Europe, I don't see any growing anger right now. |
We've tried it and we should definitely not do it again. I don't think we want to increase our reliance on imports again. |