The Bucknuts Hot Spot

The older coal plants are going out business anyways. Near me in Buffalo they are shutting down multiple coal plants because they are so inefficient that they aren't profitable to run. The old coal plants can't compete with plants that are run on natural gas.

You two need to go pump each other, you guys wearing the same outfit to work tomorrow? haha
If you don't like the taxes you pay here, MOVE!
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/background/numbers/international.cfm

If you care for your children or future generations, you should be supporting the move away from coal fired plants. The evidence is overwhelming that the polution from coal-fired plants is poisoning the air, creating many health problems, and inflicting a huge financial burden.

Yes there is a cost to switch to natural gas or nuclear or other fuels. I am more than willing to pay that cost if it means the air I breathe is much clearner and our society doesn't have to deal wtih so many health issues caused by the polution, (and the immense cost to deal with those issues).

Are you such a big fan of lung cancer and emphazema?

you're right about the S, expecially when u talk about OBAMA is doing to this country.......and what about the EPA putting specs. but the technology isn't even there yet for the coal power plants to use them....

do u support the debt and what it is going to do to your children and the future generations.......

China is glad that we have around 500 years of coal left........

I don't have a problem with shutting down coal fired plants.. but shouldn't we wait until an alternative energy source is actually available? How will we meet the energy loss from all of these coal fired plants being shut down? I think minsterbuckeye is right... It will be interesting to see the price of electricity this Summer..

My major concern is this.. We need cheap electricity so we can get off Oil. The benefit this country would see from importing no Oil, and not spending 80 billion a year on defending the strait of Hormuz, would be huge.

My suggestion would be to build Nuclear, build Wind Farms, build anything but natural gas plants and save that for heating and new transportation fuels.

Here's a source for EPA specs, Tim.

By John Kemp

(Reuters) - Proposed emission rules for new power plants unveiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 27 spell the gradual demise of coal-fired power generation and entrench the current cost advantage for natural gas.

The agency's proposed rule, signed yesterday, would set a standard well within the capability of modern gas-fired plants but impossible for coal-fired units to meet unless they employ (unproven) carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/28/column-epa-coal-fired-power-idUSL6E8ES90R20120328

Wow. What a horrible post. Speaking of easily manipulated your argument on energy is that bush started a war? Way to describe your political influences as those entirely by one person instead of making your own decisions issue by issue.

Obama is from Chicago, but a large part of his energy posts and democrat leadership is from California. This is not obamas direct doing and this move in general is not a huge deal as mentioned. Energy costs in the us are relatively low right now due to natural gas being in abundance, but the lack of actions on oil are starting to show an increase that will hurt the country economically. We need to start to invest in other energy sources and making them economically viable but the fact that most of current use is Midwest driven - including more and more natgas everyday - is a reason for part of the policies of the current government.

And I disliked bush more than Obama so not sure what hat has to do with anything.

good ! Now spend some money on education so people (slaves) in WV dont have to work/ live in those conditions. How about funding solar technology training people working in those shitty conditions and improving everyones quality of life.

its a dirty job...right? sounds like the people of WV are a little upset with the HOPE AND CHANGE GUY!!!!!