Tuesday, January 29, 2013

EnvironMENTALists Upset Over Coal Use in Nation's Capital




DC Power Plant Continues to Burn Coal, Environmentalists Fume (Breitbart)


During the reign of Pelosi and Reid, back a few years now, the environmentalists found a friend in Washington that would change the whole landscape of our nation's capital. The environmental nuts and local residents wanted to make their city coal free, and move to a natural gas alternative. Lord knows that would have been fought by the environmentalists as well once the switch took place, but the switch never did totally take place because to run 100% natural gas to heat the city, a new plant must be constructed. This plant has never been constructed, so coal still needs to be used in certain circumstances.

This has made the environmental wackos out of their mind nuts! They say they were told that coal would no longer be used and that the use of coal is harming their children. As we all know this is an over-exaggeration if there ever was one, but these people will not stop until they try to run every city in America on a couple wind farms and a drop of hope from their magic tree.

I come from a state that lives and breathes coal, natural gas, and even shale. If not for the natural gas and coal industries Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia (among others) would be wastelands not knowing what to do with themselves. These environmentalists only think about their own agenda and not the facts or anything else. If it makes sense to them then it must be true, when in reality we all know that is not how it works in life. We need coal as much as we need natural gas and a laundry list of other things the wacko tree huggers say we need to get rid of or the children will be hurt.

How many of you grew up or even know someone who grew up next to a mill of some kind. It does not matter what kind or what they were doing. My grandfather worked in a mill after WWII until the day he retired, and he lived to be 76 years old. That might not seem too old to many of you, but for the work he did and what the environmentalists say that happens to people around that kind of "pollution", he should have been dead 20 years before he actually died! Not only that, he lived right across the river. Those of you who lived in states where steel production was heavy, you know the air was a thick fog that caused many respiratory problems if they had per-existing conditions for it. My mother grew up right across the river, and I lived there for the first 5 years of my life, although by that time the steel production was at a standstill and headed over to China and other nations who could do it cheaper.

If these environmentalists have done anything it is make the situation worse than it had to be. If they want to try to run a city on some kind of wind power then more power to them, they are going to need all the help they can get. We have these energy sources and all of them can be used to compliment one another, but we refuse to tell these tree huggers that their ideas are not in the mainstream and people do not want to pay outrageous prices for energy when they can get it cheap. I live in a medium-sized home and every winter one would think because I am from Western PA the energy prices should be so high that we need to decide if we will eat or be warm. But because of all the technological advances that have come on the scene in the past decade plus, we have cheap energy and the energy suppliers make so much money they have started programs with the state to make sure the elderly get a large discount, depending on their income, on the energy they need to stay warm. When the same elderly have to pay three times the rates because of EPA rules and regs, plus the environmental lobby, who will be making money off the green products to help the elderly out? As we have seen, the market is not ready for that kind of energy even though it is being shoved down our throat!

In this case, the argument is not for wind farms or even solar plants, but in the future it will be because that is the end game for these people. They will find something wrong with natural gas before long and say they need a wind farm in every yard and a solar panel on every roof to make it safer for the children. Have you caught on to the game yet? Have you seen the use of children to get what they want? The Left will do this whenever they can. They will use whatever child they can to make their point and have you follow, even if it means the country goes under and you lose everything in the process only to figure out that they were wrong from the beginning like I and many others have been saying for a VERY long time now.

I say we use what is the cheapest for the American people in a time of economic trouble, and if the time comes that the marketplace is ready for the green energy of tomorrow, then it will be as cheap, if not cheaper, than what we have now. If not, then take a deep breath because I REFUSE to pay more to make some hippy feel better about his or her own demented observations.

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