The war on coal continues

Maybe it is time for PL to move, let's say California. The land of fruits and nuts.

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"Backwards" according to PL's definition, naturally.

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Hope4Change, just keeping track as North Dakota attempts to be the most backwards state in the country, taking first place away from Mississippi.

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No one forces you to read the Minot Daily so why do you bother then PL?

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Just like clockwork, MDN's weekly "Obama's war on coal" editorial. Just a broken record with nothing new to say.

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Veri....not my words...MDU's. please, unlike you LIBS I don't make stuff up as B ig G irl about who I am and u spread that garbage. Could I suggest u seak truth and it shall set I free. TST TST

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Dusty...The chances of someone trying to manipulate your password is akin to someone trying to steal your underwear...

FYI...You could put a restricted access code on say your underware!

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B ig G irl, "trick ponies" u say?? TST TST. Sort of like you "attempting" to change my password on the MDN? And what else were u after? Not necessary, FRAUDIE, just ask me and I'll Tell u the truth!! Tst tst...u do NOT deal in the TRUTH do you, Veri, center do not do the truth do u??? TST TST..

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And now for...

The Orwellian Newspeak

"Tip o' the Day to Ya"

Progressive...Always Good, Noble & Kind

Republican...Are You !%&#@ Kidding Me?

Democrat...I Wannabe a Progressive Tooo

Thank Goodness It's Thursday

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"...just cut all the government money going into renewables. when they become profitable on their own someone will bring them back. Until then let them die."

Agreed, subman.

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Thanks raji...New information,new technology is considered progressive.

Old ideas...proven short & flawed are currently considered Republican.

No restrictions yet in the deep end of the pool...good for that!

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Graphene supercapacitors boys and girls, graphene supercapacitors.

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Coal shmoal.

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Another thing that gets me on these types of repeating editorials...

Two-thirds of the way down...Is the Industry itself asking for govt. aid in addition to the subsidies it already receives?

Reminds me of an arguement about being too big to fail!

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Ripe for Retirement: The Case for Closing America's Costliest Coal Plants As many as 353 coal-fired power generators in 31 states — representing up to 59 GW of power capacity — are no longer economically viable compared with cleaner, more affordable energy sources. The owners of these soon-to-be-retired generators have concluded that paying for costly upgrades to keep their outdated coal plants running is a bad investment— particularly now that there are many cleaner, lower-cost alternatives that can replace old coal units while maintaining the reliability of the electric system

The average taxpayer spent over $521.00 in the last five yrs subsidizing the fossil fuel industry. Roughly $7.21 was spent on alternative energy, ie.. solar,wind & others....

You got your money (our money)..You had your time and did what with it?

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Coal is KING... about 55% of our nations electricity comes from coal... not much at all from wind...less than 5% nuclear, gas, oil hydo, geothermal etc make up the rest. take away coal we go in the black, period. All wind does is destabilize the electric grid as it isn't constant so some base loaded plant has to continually chase the effects of the modulating load caused by the fluctuating wind. the best way to fix this problem is to just cut all the government money going into renewables. when they become profitable on their own someone will bring them back. Until then let them die.

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Worldview, I like what you say but dislike what you don't say. There is not enough coal seam natural gas to even take into consideration in comparison to the amounts of energy produced by coal. Another not mentioned problem is to get the natural gas out of the coal it still has to be mined and processed and that my friend is one step forward and two steps back. The ND oil fields alone do not have the daily volume of NG needed either so I can see only worse problems and higher prices to pay for them.

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If we can go to the moon in 10 years when there was jot a color television???

My gosh what planet are you from? Are you saying there was no color TV in 1969? even 1959?

Must be from the reservation. They went out and bought TVs before they had electricity..

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Is anyone going to ask: where would we be if all the money we lost on solar junk had been put into nat gas infrastructure how would life be today? In spite of DC's stupidity the "market" is doing it evidenced by the fact the 18 wheelers are making the switch from diesel cause it makes common capitalistic sense!!! I just love FREE enterprise AND PROFIT. Such cuddly concepts. One just can not have enough oh either!!!!!

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We should not wait 25 years. If we can go to the moon in 10 years when there was not a color television than I expect we can do a lot more yet with energy. 25 years would be a maximum I think for getting it together but may be as you indicate realistic. Infrastructure is a will not an obstacale..

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Natural Gas is going to make the USA increasingly more competitive and is and advantage only we have. Shale drilling is included in this because as an economic response it is not a tax. It is revenue and it satisfies partial though, not all enviornmental concerns.

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Worldview, most of us here are proponents of natural gas and I’m no exception. I would estimate that we are not quite there yet and may take another 25 y. or more to convert coal to natural gas generators. There will be more nat. gas conversions to propane, etcetera and will drive or propel many of our cars too by then.

I suppose you are for ‘cap & trade’ also but will China quite polluting the planet? I don’t think so!

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Looked for something to respond to on the subject from the last two comments. Will keep trying.

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Worldview I didn't realize Los Angles burned so much coal.. When did that happen?

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Vera/B ig G irl, you ARE the kettle calling the pot black. U should be ashamed of yourself for the garbage U have been spreading!! U need professional help cause your kind of lying attacks are the worst kind..... Make it up and use as fact and will never attempt to get at the truth cause u can not handle the truth or admit the fertilizer u spread is just plain fertilizer.. Bottomers comes to mind!!!

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