Tuesday, January 29, 2008

The Beginning of the End of Coal?

A city in Colorado has completely abandoned coal-powered electricity and now generates all of their electrical power through wind turbines.

This is seditious: imagine if our entire country made this switch. Instead of workers digging and stripping out coal mines across the country, they'd be stuck constructing and installing wind turbines in the open air. And we frankly don't know what would happen to our air quality if we stopped burning billions of tons of coal every year; many people think that air quality would improve, but, with coal emissions such a major part of our air now, no one really knows what would happen to our air if we eliminated the products of coal combustion from our air.

It is frightening to imagine our nation's cities and countryside without coal emissions blanketing our land and water and air. But that is exactly where this Colorado city would lead us. Will you join us in stopping them? Tell Congress to increase subsidies to the coal industry, loosen "pollution" and labor laws, and, by all means, oppose subsidies for "green" energy. If wind and solar power get the same level of subsidy that we in the coal industry get, the days of coal-burning will be numbered. "Clean" air--free of coal emissions--is nothing to sneeze at. It is a serious danger we must face.

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