tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4016574119422355102.post5621805928513055191..comments2023-11-05T05:05:34.610-04:00Comments on Alter of Freedom: Coal: The Next Tobacco?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4016574119422355102.post-71287597068488201572007-10-24T14:06:00.000-04:002007-10-24T14:06:00.000-04:00It is easy to use environmentalism as a rational f...It is easy to use environmentalism as a rational for affecting the choices we make. Most folks do it if is easy. <BR/><BR/>When the cost is high, even environmentalists can pause in their pursuit.<BR/><BR/>If you drastically reduce coal mining and consumption for the production of electricity, then you need to have a replacement that will not reduce the amount of electricity that it produces. Hydroelectric cant just be placed anywhere. Windmills have been voted down by the liberal elite of Cape Cod Sound just because they dont like the looks, others reject to protect the birds. Solar is gaining ground but not fast enough to replace coal. Nuclear is the least green house gas polluting of the major sources of power that can be brought online in the near future but it is a gamble that scientist will ever come up with a safe waste disposal method. Europe uses nuclear for a large portion of its energy needs.<BR/><BR/>Back to the cost of choices. It is easy to dismiss environmentalists when they themselves still consume as much energy as the common person, or in some cases like Al Gore, more than the common person.<BR/><BR/>We all want our back yards and ponds to be clean, but the real test is what people are willing to pay. <BR/><BR/>Like most things, if it is cheap it gets wasted. The way to save anything is to make it so expensive people will change their habits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4016574119422355102.post-39323207408615419372007-10-23T10:08:00.000-04:002007-10-23T10:08:00.000-04:00Has the MSM sold out to these crazies or what? I w...Has the MSM sold out to these crazies or what? I was listening this morning as the global warmists blame the fires in California on climate change. Are you kidding? fact is it is these people who have prevented the clean up of the underbrush in our National Parks, they have allowed the beetle bugs to kill trees resulting in the torches on the ground we are watching on television, have removed sought to remove all the wolves from Yellowstone Park and now have the audacity to put the rise in bear populations at someone elses feet. These people assume zero responsibility for any of the results of their policy. <BR/>These are the same people who believe they can beat mother nature because they refuse to believe that God was the creator of the things that they are talking about in terms of the environment. So on the one hand they endorse natural selection or evolution and then attempt to manipulate the natural world and the wild by refusing to allow the natural order of things to occur.<BR/>I am not saying that man does not contribute negatively on the environment, but they refuse to admit that man also contributes positively. I agree there are things we need to do, even here in Virginia, to clean up our rivers by stopping the run off of the fertilizers and such. There are things in the legitimate environmental community that are addressing this matters in a common sense approach and not this radicalism stemming from the old Jerry Brown grassroots organizations out in California.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4016574119422355102.post-36726229309206064392007-10-22T22:54:00.000-04:002007-10-22T22:54:00.000-04:00A few points:In terms of state economics. The foll...A few points:<BR/>In terms of state economics. The follwoing states have the greatest coal prodcution; KY, WV, WY all with 100 million short tons per year followed by TX and PA in the 50 to 100 range. This range along with the 25 to 50 million range impact quite a few states.<BR/>In 1990 VA was 46.5 million tons and now is down to 31 million due in large part to a reduction in mines. ASgain most of the mines out west in WY are surface mines and are easierto mine than that of Virginia's which are buried deep in the ground. It takes alot more to get at these and thus the industry was hit hard with the sulfur reducing regulation of the Clean Air Act.<BR/>Second and to the point of Raising Kaine. I link to that blog as an effort for people to see just what it is that the liberal, progressive movement in Virginia is advocating. I believe that we should expose ourselves and be open to listening to all voices in any debate that impacts the future of our State. Of course, Raising Kaine is not coming from a conservative viewpoint but nonetheless doesnot been that they do notbring something of substance to the table. We are all Virginians first. We simply need to remind them of that from time to time.<BR/>The comment to the ice cap melting is legitimate. I do not believe that thye have made a solid enough case as of yet to justify saying that the water levels are going to rise in such a short period of time as they suggest. They truly do not have the science yet to back that claim up. In fact, if you go along the eastern seaboard must feel that there is an erosion problem without rising water levels impacting the coastline.<BR/>In term sof my use of the word "radical" I do not mean to imply these folks are like the "truthers" who believe that the World Trade Center and 9/11 was the work of our government but they are certainly radical within the environmental community. Calling for the elimination of coal is proof enough in my book.<BR/><BR/>J. ScottAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4016574119422355102.post-52984030759151383672007-10-22T19:26:00.000-04:002007-10-22T19:26:00.000-04:00Can someone please tell us why the issue of the po...Can someone please tell us why the issue of the polar ice cap melting is more important than the health and welfare of our families? Why must these Al Gore worshipers ignore their most inconvenient truth; the majority of Americans believe they are all completely crazy!!!<BR/>Getting rid of coal is about as likely as getting rid of water.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4016574119422355102.post-42390795277057888072007-10-22T18:16:00.000-04:002007-10-22T18:16:00.000-04:00RK is a liberal rant of the ranks of DailyKos. It ...RK is a liberal rant of the ranks of DailyKos. It is Virginias version of trashing anything and everything that they pressume to be from the GOP. It does not matter if the position would benefit Virginia. They seek to merely discredit anyone regardless of truth based on party lines. If you read the predictions for the election it has every Democrat winning. The presume that there was something underhand when the Governorship went to the GOP in LA. No facts or evidence of course to lend to such charges. <BR/>I noticed you have RK linked to this blog. I am not sure why you would even reference such blogs let alone link to it on your blog.<BR/>Closing coal plants. Yeah these liberals really have a plan for the future of Virginia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4016574119422355102.post-44003902972434460632007-10-22T17:33:00.000-04:002007-10-22T17:33:00.000-04:00I have seen the results first hand after the legis...I have seen the results first hand after the legislation of the 80's and its regulations against the industry. Virginia lost almost ten thousand jobs as a result of the Clean Air Act. <BR/>The miners were not afforded the opportunity to be re-trained nor was another industry going to come in when the plants closed or cut the employee rolls in half. The local economies were devastated.<BR/>It is so easy for these peole to talk about the Planet in Peril and never once consider that they are talking about real people with real families. They are only focused on reducing climate change no matter what the cost to our citizens. They are so anti-industry and anti-business its ridiculous. It is not the environment that employees people; people employ people.<BR/>They have destroyed tobacco as well as the manufacturing base with their regulations and trade agnedas under Clinton like NAFTA. Just drive down I95 through Lumberton,NC. I remember when that area was booming. Now it is all but dead. And for what?<BR/>These advocates have obviously never visited southwestern Va and driven through the town or spoken with any of the people and yet feel they can paint such broad strokes with rhetoric about training them with new technology. They have heard it before. They have been lied to before as well.<BR/><BR/>I would be interested in knowing exactly what States would be impacted the most by such advocacy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com