"[I]f somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them," and electricity rates will "necessarily skyrocket"

 

Great video, Schtal, thanks. Who would have ever thought an electric powered car could beat a Corvette?  And SitasMom, perhaps Obama's plans will be soon blocked due to severe unemployment and double dip recession, creating far too much public outcry for him to get rid of nuclear and coal generating plants.  There is already a big outcry in Texas due to some rolling brownouts.  Perhaps this will wake the sheeple up and they will take back their govt from the offshore super-elites that have hijacked it?

Obama just backed off from the EPA ozone standards which were limiting Coal
fired electric generating, and he did this in response to great political and public pressure.  Could this be an omen of more backing down?

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-ozone-20110902,0,6899709.story 

He will backdown just enough to get re-elected and go right back to distroying our country!

The epa has not backed down on the coal mines.

Sitas Mom, I hope you are wrong, but it would make sense if he is re-elected since he appears to be so openly committed to the destruction of the Republic, jobs, reduction of power generating, and high oil prices.




My Job Is Done Here Now   (D.Dees by Fair Use)
 

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/03/potus-who-opposes-regulatory-burden-about-to-create-emergency-condition-in-texas/

POTUS who “opposes regulatory burden” about to create emergency condition in Texasposted at 8:30 am on September 3, 2011 by Jazz Shaw

We have the quote locked in on the White House web site, veritably written in stone.

At the same time, I have continued to underscore the importance of reducing regulatory burdens and regulatory uncertainty, particularly as our economy continues to recover.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas will certainly be glad to hear that. You see, they’ve been getting worried lately that if certain federal regulations go into effect, they could be in some serious trouble. Somebody should drop them a line and let them know they have nothing to fear, because they still seem to think the president is about to send them up the river without a paddle.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, operator of the state’s power grid, said in a report today that a new federal environmental regulation would reduce generating capacity and put the grid “at increasing risk of emergency events,” including rotating power outages.

The Jan. 1 implementation date for the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, designed to curb air pollution from power plants, leaves ERCOT with “an extremely truncated period” in which to assess the impact of the rule and “no realistic opportunity to take steps that could even partially offset the substantial losses of available operating capacity,” it said.

The report outlined three scenarios, with even the “best-case scenario” expected to result in the loss of an estimated 1,200 to 1,400 megawatts of generating capacity during peak consumption periods, ERCOT said.

“Had this incremental reduction been in place in 2011, ERCOT would have experienced rotating outages during days in August,” the report said.

Pshaw. After the president’s announcement this week about ozone level regulations, clearly Texas has no cloud on their horizon. The president will doubtless roll back those regulations any day now. Or at least right after he finishes his speech next Thursday night.

Unfortunately, nobody has clued in the Environmental Protection Agency on the latest presidential guidelines. When asked about the distress call, they were almost dismissive, saying that Texas “has an ample range of cost-effective emission reductions options” for complying with the rule “without threatening electricity reliability or the continued operation of coal-burning units.”

I hope President Obama finds out about this. These EPA guys are positively going rogue. 

Coal fired plants in the West are responsible for polluting our waterways in the East. We have lawyers working on it.

Coal scrubbers are now highly developed and can effectively remove harmful emissions.   This technology has already been successfully deployed in many coal based power plants.  Coal is very efficient, plentiful and a proven technology for providing power.  It cannot be replaced by wind energy at anywhere near competitive costs.  In fact wind costs and solar are estimated to be 20-50 times higher with the current technology available. Before you rule out coal, do some serious research about it.