Verle Reinicke, Bismarck, column: U.S. must transition from coal to renewables
December 17, 2011 at 6:05 pm in Grand Forks Herald
Thinking about 2050, this question comes to mind: Given the increasing cost of coal, future regulations for coal and construction costs for new plants, will that coal plant still exist in 2050?
Most likely, the answer is no. Continue Reading
Why is it that every environmental “improvement” drops a heavy economic burden onto the ordinary citizen? It’s possible to trace the development of the “Green Campaign”; first everyone opposes it, then Big Business figures out how to profit from the new regulations, and then Big Business bribes the government to promote the Green disaster-of-the-week.
I’d be a strong supporter of newer, more efficient coal-fired powerplants, but it seems the EPA and the Nutjobs are simply out to destroy coal as an energy source. Coal is cheap and plentiful; no wonder they hate it so. “Cheap and plentiful” results in a tendency toward human economic (and therefore political) freedom, and citizens must be controlled so they can be properly milked.
The better solution is to invest heavily in new or updated coal-fired generators, and leave the natural gas for residential and small-business use.
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