On Mar 1, 7:34*am, Kurt Ullman wrote:
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coal is plentiful, 100% american and well understood.

* *And very dirty unless all sorts of things are added (to the cost).

the nuke power industry is going to have a horrible time getting any
new plants licensed in our country..........

* Heck the environmentalists manage to delay the NG peaking plants, so
getting ANY new plants licensed in our country.


Yep, the environmental extremists are like that kid Mikey from the
70's TV commercial. They don't like anything.

Speaking of natural gas, Exxon-Mobil has a proposal to build an
offshore liquefied natural gas terminal off the coast of central NJ,
where I live. It would be 21 miles offshore, invisible from land,
with an underwater pipeline bringing the gas in. The local newspaper
ran an editorial that was a classic. They bitched about how it
couldn't be allowed, because we can't allow the chance of spills
causing damage to our beaches. Say what? The morons who proclaim
to know what is best for us, don't even realize what LNG is. There
is zero chance of anything washing up, because if it did spill, it
would just instantly vaporize. They don't even understand the
difference between crude oil and LNG, probably because when I was
taking chemistry and physics classes, they were all smoking dope and
hugging trees.

So, instead of getting some jobs and increased availability of energy
here in NJ, just watch what happens. The loons will block it and
eventually it will wind up somewhere where folks have a bit more
sense, like Louisiana. Then, 5 years from now, when energy costs 25%
more because it has to then be shipped 1000 miles, the same morons
will be bitching about the evil energy companies.

BTW, these same loons at the newspaper have been running scare stories
and editorials just about non-stop trying to prevent re-licensing of
our local nuke.

And of course the final hypocrisy in all this is that the same
environmentalists that block everything, are also the ones telling us
how the very existence of mankind is at stake due to global warming.
Yet, they block not only nuclear, which emits close to zero green
house gases and is one huge thing we could be quickly using to reduce
dependence on fossil fuels, but also virtually everything else.