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COAL bad fossil fuel

jstack6
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carbon offsets will make older dirty power like coal very expensive. It is already quite expensive but the costs are hidden and it has goverment subsidies. This topic will cover dirty old fashioned coal. Many people don't know about all the pollution this type of fuel makes. Some also don't know the USA still makes over 50% of our electricity using this fuel.

Some still think it's cheap and don't realize it gets big subsidies and that is why many power companies still use it so much. Water is also very valuable and coal uses a lot of water.

A few talk about new clean coal processes that are much better than old ways of using it but it still needs to be mined, transported and burned. There are scrubbers that can be put on the smoke stacks but most utilities don't do this unless that are forced to. In fact they expand older coal plants to avoid having to make clean power.

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Submitted by jstack6 on Mon, 06/18/2007 - 20:03.

jstack6
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Re: COAL bad fossil fuel

coal is so last century. It makes me think of the Flintstones and very dirty air.

50% of it is used to power the USA. That is very sad. We can do so much better.

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Wed, 06/27/2007 - 17:01

jstack6
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Re: COAL bad fossil fuel

I've just read the book This moment on Earth by John Kerry. It tells how existing laws haven't been enforced . The clear air act shows over 900 power plants in violation and could clean up their emissions but the Busk 1 and 2 as well as Regan exempted them and won't force the to clean up.

What a waste of clean air and lives because of a few bad men who don't wan tot clean up the waste. We need strong leaders willing to pay the cost of being clean and help us all save in the long run.

This is a shame.

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Thu, 08/16/2007 - 13:26