03-31-2009, 02:30 AM
Acer wrote:
[quote=swampy]
The CEO of our local electric co-op has already told us to expect our electric bill to triple by 2012 if clean coal is off the table.
Just remember that clean coal is not cheap. Lots of processing before burning means your bill will still go up at least some.
Of course clean coal development is not cheap. But we'd probably be much closer to achieving it if liberal environmentalists had not been fighting it so hard for so long. Natural gas is another possible solution, but has met the same objections from the same environmental zealots. Nuclear has met the same fate. Drilling too.
Cap and trade seems to be the liberal solution, but it solves nothing when the infrastructure for renewable energy is still 10-15 years away. You could put a bazillion windmills across the plains today, but there's no way to store its energy or transport it to the rest of the country. Taxing energy production is only a scheme to raise more revenues for the insatiable government's need for money, power and control. It's not a solution to our energy problem. It's a penalty on business and industry caused by lack of action by our failed drive for energy independence dating back to the 60's and 70's.