In 76 I was a worm working on a rig that was taking core samples that ether discovered or was exploring the extent of the Powder River Basin coal deposits. I wonder if I could be charged with aiding and abetting.
"Longview, Washington—When an Australian shipping company named Millennium Bulk Terminals announced plans last November to open a coal export terminal in this port city of 36,000, few predicted any trouble. Millennium quickly bought the site on which the terminal would be located, a property on the banks of the Columbia River that was once the home of an aluminum smelting plant. Cowlitz County, home of Longview, a blue-collar bastion 40 miles north of Portland, Oregon, approved the project after a review, seeing as a blessing the 75 promised fulltime jobs that the terminal would bring at a time when the city’s unemployment rate was near 12 percent. The terminal would be used to ship coal mined in Montana and Wyoming’s Powder River Basin to China, whose appetite for coal is voracious—and growing. The United States, meanwhile, now mines more coal than it burns, making coal an excellent export opportunity, and a good tool with which to lower the United States’ yawning trade deficit with the Middle Kingdom. "
I have read where the enviro types are complaining about those coal exports, wondering why they are going green when China just undoes all their work.
Personally I like that America can still be competitive on the world stage.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
SS109 wrote: I have read where the enviro types are complaining about those coal exports, wondering why they are going green when China just undoes all their work.
Personally I like that America can still be competitive on the world stage.
I wonder where the juice will come from if we ever get a substantive # of electric cars.
I'm not against using coal. I just want the mining companies and coal burners to come up to recommended code to prevent most of the pollution.
For example: Coal companies in WV just take off the top of mountains. All the crap runs down hill to the streams and pollutes them.
Coal refineries don't want to build new plants because they cost a lot more than the existing ones. But, air pollution would be less.
Funny how we don't hear about acid rain anymore. I've seen the results in forests. The pollution came from the midwest and devastated quite a few areas of trees in the Appalachias.
