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Amaras · 10-21-2008, 07:41 PM

I was watching Frontline on PBS tonight, and I learned something
that shocked me.
52% of the electricity in the U.S. is produced by burning coal.
The National Mining Association more or less backs it up here;
http://www.nma.org/pdf/012907_forecast.pdf
They also expected to produce 1.170 billion tons in 2007 for the U.S.

It's obvious that we are not only heavily dependent on oil, but coal as well.
Think of all those who are employed in the coal industry. No wonder both
candidates have to say they support "clean" burning coal.
They'd lose Illinois, Indiana, & West Virginia otherwise.

Here is what I ask, did you know about this vast underbelly (or does everyone
else know and I'm the idiot) to our "cleaner" alternative, electricity?

10-21-2008, 07:41 PM	#1 (permalink)
Amaras Junkie Location: At my daughter's beck and call.	Coal and electricity I was watching Frontline on PBS tonight, and I learned something that shocked me. 52% of the electricity in the U.S. is produced by burning coal. The National Mining Association more or less backs it up here; http://www.nma.org/pdf/012907_forecast.pdf They also expected to produce 1.170 billion tons in 2007 for the U.S. It's obvious that we are not only heavily dependent on oil, but coal as well. Think of all those who are employed in the coal industry. No wonder both candidates have to say they support "clean" burning coal. They'd lose Illinois, Indiana, & West Virginia otherwise. Here is what I ask, did you know about this vast underbelly (or does everyone else know and I'm the idiot) to our "cleaner" alternative, electricity? __________________ Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. -Noam Chomsky Love is a verb, not a noun. -My Mom The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. -Louis Aragon, "La Porte-plume," Traite du style, 1928 Last edited by Amaras; 10-21-2008 at 07:43 PM.. Reason: Oops