[Hoot Gibson]

What you don't know is that AEP changed the plans, from closing both units(as attested to in your June article, to turning one to gas(Unit 1) and put scrubbers on the other(Unit 2). All these changes happened somtime in September, months after your June article.

Well thank you for that bit of information. So, the change in EPA emissions requirements resulted in an expensive switch to gas. You are deliberately dodging the issue, which is Obama's EPA is forcing expensive changes to coal-fired power plants that will be extremely costly to utilities, which will pass the additional costs to consumers through higher utility bills.

Actually, had you read it, the AEP news release in June contains the following:

Big Sandy Plant, Louisa, Ky. – Units 1 and 2 (1,078 MW) retired by Dec. 31, 2014;
Big Sandy Unit 1 would be rebuilt as a 640-MW natural gas plant by Dec. 31, 2015;

I guess that decision was not made in September after all.

Is there any Obama policy that you are not willing to defend?