[TheRealThing]

No. Coal companies are putting coal scrubbers on just about every unit, but gas is so cheap right now, electric companies are using gas, as most have gas units also. If gas goes up, they will go back to burning coal, that is cleaned with those scrubbers. I build gas units, as well as coal scrubbers. These guys here will only tell you things that promote the republican agenda. I work for Apogee coal as we speak, building "filter" plants to clean up the selenium that is going into the creek. Selenium is a known cancer causer, and several other illnesses, in larger amounts caused by mining, but you won't hear that from the republican cheerleaders here.

Again, this is not what you have been saying. Your argument for closing down coal fired plants under the Obama administration was in support of clean air standards. Now you're admitting to one of my main points which, of course, is that technology exists in the form of scrubbers that clean up the emissions from coal fired plants. Thusly, rendering the whole argument moot.

In fact, the over regulation and impossible epa standards that keep on changing just when America's energy industry has all but met every dictate issued, is the real problem. But, it demonstrates that given a little time our technological advances in cleaning up all manner of emissions are and will be sufficient to guarantee a stable and healthy environment. Don't let him lead you astray 23, the Obama administration is at war with the coal industry.

Why would coal mining communities have a problem with Obama? Because he’s using environmental regulation to attack a major source of jobs and electricity, just as he said he would. In 2008, Obama said his plans would force electricity prices to “necessarily skyrocket.” He also made it clear, “If somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can -- it’s just that it will bankrupt them.”
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