Losing the War on Coal
There’s only one thing worse than fighting a war. And that’s fighting a war you cannot win.
Because the Obama Administration gave ridiculous amounts of power to the unelected officials of the Environmental Protection Agency, they can pretty much pass and enforce whatever rules they choose. Even if that means destroying businesses and the people who depend on them for their livelihood.
A perfect case in point is the coal industry, which has been decimated by Obama and the EPA. The agency’s ridiculously strict rules regarding acceptable levels of pollution have caused many power plant closures over the past few years, and now more are coming. Hundreds of jobs in some 37 states will be lost as more stifling regulations go into effect, damaging the economies of states that are already hurting.
And, some industry experts are saying that the nation’s power supply will also be negatively affected by these EPA regulations. That’s just what we need when we already have a vulnerable electrical grid and an endless parade of enemies that have vowed to target that grid, right?
Unfortunately, there’s nothing that can be done about it, unless a Republican-controlled Congress decides to try to strip the EPA of some of its power. Right now, according to Alan Minier, chairman of the Wyoming Public Service Commission, “It’s a game we can’t win.”
Do you believe the EPA should be allowed to do whatever it wants, or should some of its power be taken away and given to Congress? I’d love to hear from you about this.
People,
This is none other than this administration’s ploy to put the United Nation’s “Agenda 21” program in place. Environmental, land and population control are the key factors used to control the world. Obama is a globalist who has been trying repeatedly to give up our sovereignty to U.N. control. The biggest control factor tool used by Obama is environmental control through regulations and land grabs. Wake up people! We’re being played like a violin for Obama’s devices and the U.N.’s desire for world control, neither of which are pro-America!!!
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Coal, oil, gas, newkiller will soon become history.
The planet will become cleaner and safer and of course, unlike the lie told to us by those inside the newkiller power cabal, it will provide cheap energy for all.
The people over at Veterans Today website have been following this development for sometime now and it looks more than just promising. It looks like the future.
Oh, by the way, it was probably Keshe technology that shut down the U.S.S. Donald Cook. ( 25 crew members resigned from the boat when it reached port.)
Another advantage keshe will bring is the collapse of the energy industry lobbyists and their control over congress. LOL!
No more wars over oil.
No more oil spills destroying the environment.
No more Wall St. manipulation of oil prices that create increases in gas.
Hopefully this will bring about an end to the iron grip the energy industry has on us all.
What is Keshe Technology? Given that you spelled Nuclear “Newkiller” I just don’t know what Keshe is!
It’s not only the coal plants that the EPA is trying to rid us of. They are trying to control water that the farmers & ranchers need to grow the crops for the food that you eat. Seems to me they are trying to urn us into a 3rd world country.
They want the land and they don’t care what happens to the people. Then the “sheeples” will be forced to work it for the state.
YOU ARE CORRECT ‘ ; AND THE ‘ SHEEPLE ‘ , WILL STILL HAVE NO CLUE .
The first causality of special interest political power is common sense. Using our corn crop to fuel cars does nothing for the environment while raising the price of food. This is even dumber than paying farmers to not farm! Also the most dangerous and sloppy way to transport oil is via rail, but that is how we do it because Warren Buffet owns Obama.
At the least, the EPA definitely needs some strict oversight by Congress. The EPA needs to research the “cost” of new regulations, and all related info needs to be provided to Congress, who then needs to vote whether to approve the regulations. EPA regulation writers need to be jerked into reality.
I don’t understand WHY our congress doesn’t take control of some of this mess. Reduce their pay checks until… Get rid of the EPA and start over!! If the Congress is equal part of government how can Obama have such a stranglehold? Leading us straight to hell. It’s hell now for people in coal industry.
WHY?
at least two reasons:
First, They like the bribes, the power, the luxurious lifestyle, the fame & celebrity, the attention.
Second, they are actually on board with the U.N. Agenda 21 K.N.A. Agenda 2030. Part of the plan includes “Depopulation”. When you look at virtually all of these laws (ie. obamacare with rationed care and death panels) and regulations they all make survival more difficult, increase the chance of death and shorten the lifespan of Americans. Once you start looking at what they do from that paradigm it all makes sense.
From even before recorded history, there have always been people who want to take over the world. It is so common that movies, tv shows, comics, sitcoms, cartoons, novels do stories on this psychosis desire to control other people’s lives.
watch “Slavery Terrorism and Islam” on Utube: http://youtu.be/6ikV9kxAwL4
Economically and Strategically, the best course of action for the nation to take is to use up all the UNFRIENDLY Arab oil FIRST! Save US and Canadian domestic coal, gas and oil for LAST!
A domestic supply during war that can NOT be torpedoed is smart have in reserve.
Arctic blow outs, Keystone pipe line oil spills, Coal poisoning air and water with mercury, Fracking up the ground water with more poison will just have to wait.
But let’s keep that option open, to induce the Arabs to keep their price low. That helps American consumers and hurts Russian exporters!
We as a nation will need gas and oil for the next 500 years. Exporting it to China or Europe for short term profits is not smart, it is criminal and economic SUICIDE!
Do you realize that the only thing preventing the US from complete economic meltdown is the revitalization of domestic oil production? If it weren’t for hundreds of thousands of jobs created by fraccing for oil, we’d have already collapsed under the weight of our own government and its massive debt and unfunded liabilities. And btw, you needn’t worry about Keystone pipeline oil spills, because the idiot in charge has managed to prevent this modern pipeline from being built. Meanwhile, the oil is being hauled by Buffet’s diesel-powered, CO spewing railroads, and trucks. Now that’s environmental protection for you!
P. S. Charlie:
So, while we’re foregoing the profits, jobs, tax revenues and economic growth that we’d have if we could ship our oil freely to where it commands the highest price, how are we to pay for all the Arab oil you’d rather be buying? And while we’re trashing perfectly functional coal-powered energy plants to build solar and wind plants that produce electricity at more than twice the cost, who is going to foot the bill? More borrowing no doubt. Your plan will accelerate the economic suicide we are already committed to.
NOT TO FEAR. PRESIDENT RAND PAUL WILL DO WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THE PEOPLE, INCLUDING ABOLISHING THE EPA AND OTHER NESTS OF PARASITE BUREAUCRATS.
Why, oh why, for what sort of reason do you want to continue to fund terrorist states who have one goal. Destroy all infidels. They call the USA the Great Satan afterall. We need to cut off all economic support for these regimes and let them return to the 7th century. In the mean time, You want us to PURPOSELY strangle and suppress our own economy at the risk of our continued survival???? REALLY?? NUTS. just f*%@ing nuts.
While I agree that no agency should be given any kind of power without Congressional oversight, I do believe we need to find greener alternatives to our natural resources. I am saddened that people are losing their jobs, but why not convert coal plants into solar panel facilities to run the grid? People don’t have to lose their jobs. We’re already taking more than our planet can replenish, and global warming is getting worse. Soon there will be no more oil to drill, no more water wells to tap, and our planet is becoming closer and closer to being uninhabitable. This is why the government is taking underhanded measures to cull the population. Corporatist America has turned us into a society of consumerism, and so that’s what we do…consume, consume, consume. I place the blame of this countries failures on both Republicans and Democrats, and the corporations who write our laws for their interests, who pay our “elected officials” to pass them. Our government has been set up so that only the top 1% wins, and everyone else loses. While coal is only a small part of the problems we face, we need to really look at the big picture.
Converting coal plants into solar power plants costs billions of dollars and the end product is electricity that is far more expensive than our present costs. Where is all that money going to come from? More government borrowing and money printing? The main problem with environmentalist obstructionism is that they will soon run out of other people’s money.
Do you not realize how extremely inefficient solar and wind power are????
Do you also not realize the 10’s of thousands of acres of pristine wildlife habitat that will be destroyed by solar panels blocking all sunlight from reaching the ground below each panel????
Perhaps — maybe — in the far future — solar may become more efficient. But in the meantime, we don’t want to have to go back to cutting down the forests to keep from freezing. Just think of all the smoke and smog all those wood stoves would spew out. We could not plant trees fast enough.
I work ‘ in the ( wind ‘) industry ; you are exactly right . If it were not for the gubmint ‘ subsidies ‘ ; it is not cost – efficient ‘.
The endemic issue of “consumerism,” as you refer to it, is nevertheless a problem of values. Family-oriented, patriotic, Judeo-Christian Americanism has been on the slide since the Left launched the “Great Society” and the so-called War on Poverty . . . . When the State becomes both your mommy’s teat and your daddy’s disciplinary hand, the void that’s left is what you try to fill by unfettered “consuming” (sneakers, $200 jeans, iPhones, etc.) . . . and the economy pivots to fill society’s personal void, and drags the innately fallible and corruptible lawmakers around to the same purpose. Don’t blame consumerism — blame the “progressive” Democrat Left, for working so hungrily toward the erosion of everything that made America different from the Euro-collectivism its colonists were escaping from in the first place. The family dies, and everybody shleps off to Best Buy and Gamestop to nurse the emptiness that they’re left with.
As for your claptrap about the “uninhabitable” planet, and the weakminded climate-change nonsense? You’re part of a whole separate problem. Sure, the State slyly whittles population numbers down through the prevention of timely disease cures and vaccinations and with a Soviet-style command-and-control health care system (which the sheeplike “Please-don’t-call-me-a-racist” voters willingly handed them) . . . but climate-change fools never seem to get their minds around the United Nations’ globalist agenda! Once you’ve dumbed a population down enough to make them believe that the nobility of paying three or four times as much for their light and heat somehow supersedes the efficiency of clean coal and the economic and national-security relief we’d get from tapping North American oil reserves, we’ve reached the end of the line as a nation of free people.
Frank,
The EPA is only one of the damned autonomous “agencies” that are controlled by and in lock-step with the “Anti-America Establishment and Administration.”
The “super socialist whore” that is obviously out of control (to anyone with a single brain cell) is the IRS!!! But, it doesn’t stop there.
Then we have to deal with the other agencies that are gutting the Constitution, The Bill of Rights and our everyday freedoms by writing and implementing unregulated and sometimes secret policies such as, FEMA, HLS, NSA, DEA, BATF, USDA, BLM, TSA, FFA, DOT … and the list of self empowered agencies goes on and on.
Here in Colorado the Liberals have even restricted God, by making it illegal to capture rain water from the gutters of our own homes … the state defies Federal Law allowing rampant drug abuse … the right to self defense is again being challenged … Eminent Domain is being used to seize privately owned farms, ranches and property to appease the “bunny huggers and restrict the production of oil to appease the eco-freaks.
Sadly, it is not only Colorado that is being raped by massive bureaucratic regulations that are so outrageously insane … from which we have no defense.
Only “We The People” can put a stop to such dictatorial abuses. It has become apparent, even with a Republican House and Senate our elected representatives lied to get elected, once again!
They are so afraid of “Political Correctness” and wallowing in their own greed, to the point that they do not have the intestinal fortitude to put a stop to the madness … there is evidently far to much personal money to be made once they are in office and accepted into the corrupt Washington DC machine.
God Save America and Protect Our Troops!
Your Friend,
Orrin
Obama said he was going to raise our electric bills. He is and will continue until our Congress steps in to take back their control of these unelected department employees. Write letters to Editors, contact your electric company and ask what they are doing to save our country!! Use less electricity to save right now. Know where your power originates. Know who to contact. Write, email or call them. Then get behind your congress and SHOUT about your complaints about loss of job ,unelected people running our country into the ground, tell why with some of the cleanest coal in the world we need to suffer when China and other countries are doing nothing about this issue. Don’t wait until you cannot afford electricity, DO IT NOW!
I agree with you. I would love to see the Republicans step up and actually take back anything that Mr Obama has inflicted upon the citizenry of the United States. The EPA is long overdue for getting jerked up short by congress. No appointed agency should be allowed to make mandates with the full weight of law without Congressional oversight.
Here in Utah we recently witnessed the closure of a HUGE coal fired electric generation plant. The effects on the local coal mining industry was minimal because much of “our” coal is being shipped offshore, mainly to Asian countries. The reason? It has much higher BTU’s per ton, and it burns with far fewer emissions than most coal. The biggest loss was to those who worked at the generation plant. Any comments??
The US coal industry is in tatters, thanks to Obama. Even if the effect of plant closing in Utah appears to you to be minimal, it isn’t. The cumulative effect of EPA over-regulation has cost thousands of jobs, and raised the cost of electricity substantially. So, less income for workers, paired with higher cost of living. That’s the liberal environmentalist prescription for a better life for the middle-class.
The USA ‘ economy is in tatters ‘ , thanks to o’ bummer , whose goal was to do just that ‘ ; shut down our country ‘ , and George SOROS ‘ is just waiting for it to happen , he will be using ( shorts ) to make himself a billionaire , two or three times over , again , just as he has done to other countries ,