Hello Ralph,
'Over-regulation' is an opinion. It is to be expected that the people who lost jobs and the billionaires who lost profits are not going to agree with anything which causes that effect. And the billionaires have lots of money to pay for PR and crony capitalism. The internet is going to be full of propaganda pushing that agenda.
Global warming is real. Industrialization is changing our climate. The seas are absorbing more and more CO2. That causes acidification which is killing shellfish and plankton, the very basis of the food chain in the sea. We are wiping out our own food sources! Dirty coal needs to stay in the ground. President Obama was correct to end dirty coal use.
It is incorrect to say coal provides 50% of our electrical energy. Coal now provides just 17% of our energy.
Energy in the USA - wiki
It is also incorrect to say that the USA is supposed to be a free market capitalist nation. There is nothing in the Constitution which says this.
Your arguments are packed with opinions, assumptions, misrepresentations and outright falsehoods. No good policy can be produced based on incorrect information.
Coal is our past. Renewable energy is our future.
Overregulation is an opinion? Really? When you begin a retort by suggesting that an objective, testable provable FACT is simply an opinion, and then follow it up by declaring that Global Warming is a product of man (as if the Climate has never changed in the history of this planet and is not a natural cyclical occurrence long before the industrial revolution)....and lastly attempt to refute the fact that 49% of this nations power grid depends upon coal production by providing a link that is measuring TOTAL ENERGY OUTLAYS and SOURCES not ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION with FOSSIL FUELS totaling 87.4% of TOTAL energy consumption while the inefficient GREEN ENGRY barley covers 5.6% (with the majority coming from HYDRO Electric production and with others (wind, solar., etc.) providing just 3.1% combined.
Talking about attempting to piss down someone's back and then tell them to relax its ONLY RAIN.
Here is a link to Real MATHEMATICAL STATS.....measuring Electric Power fuel sources. As Mark Twain once said, "Figures never lie.....but liars sure as hell figure." There is a vast difference between Total Energy Consumption (that includes the use of Fossil fuel driven Automobiles, Trains, Buses and a vast network that transports goods through the TRUCKING INDUSTRY. This is what happens when you ASSUME you are the smartest (ass) person in every room you walk into.
Now an objective and testable Truth. Coal did provide almost 50% of this nation's Electric power source......it has came down a bit...thanks to OVERREGULATION and the spiking of production costs (Obama did declare he would bankrupt the coal industry by making it to costly to produce coal)......it was a 49% it dropped to 39% in 2014 and to 33% (still double of the Mark Twain Lie you attempted to get away with by saying that it was just a little over 17%...... its just like a libertarian/socialist lite to attempt to manipulate or omit certain critical stats (figures don't lie....but liars figure)....the reality is the demonstrable and testable fact: Fossil Energy is responsible for over 85% of this nations TOTAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION et.al., Electrical Grid energy production ( reported by your own link).....the next truth....Coal is directly responsible for providing 2x the fuel to make the electric grid possible that you declare as being 17% (a demonstrable and statistical LIE). 2 Reasons that percentage has fallen. Overregulation (as those drops occurred during the Obama Administration as began what he said he would regulate the coal industry in bankruptcy).....the next reason or the drop off? Coals cousin (natural Gas) which is often located around COAL SEAMS ......Obama made it cheaper to use gas than coal....but combine these two job producing cousins and guess what? Add coal and gas production and you get over 50%. Think about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Power_in_the_United_States
The Truth is never subject to refutation. Simply demonstrate to me through the Scientific Process (observable, objective, testable constant REPRODUCILE RESULTS every time this Scientific Experiment is placed to test.....and I will agree with you....but as of now, Man Made Global Warming is simply a consensus OPINION. Much like it was a consensus of all the smart people in the middle ages that propagated a supposed consensus TRUTH, that being the SUN revolved around a FLAT EARTH with the earth being the center of the Universe. A consensus does not make something a FACT. Objective, Provable, Testable, Reproducible SCIENTIFIC experimentation makes a FACT of SCIENCE.
Clearly you did not see the 32 power plants that were shut down during the Obama administration that was working full tilt....that's just an opinion
A right wing spin. I will point out SPIN to you.
On This man made global warming thing....that you declare as an absolute truth, I suggest that you provide me with one supposed SCIENTIFIC REPORT that does not include popular left wing subjective language such as SUGGESTS, LOOKS LIKE, MIGHT INDICATE, COULD INDICATE...etc., Just one report.....1
If Global Warming (man made.....as it takes aidiot to declare that the CLIMATE never changes with the biggest contributing factor to those changes of climate being that Big Hydrogen Yellow Ball in the sky)......is Real and Provable, there could be no debate possible as mentioned before....facts/truths are not subject to refutation.
Do you not think that attacking this nations source for energy.....fossil fuels, is not a national security concern when the green energy you are pushing costs exponentially more with a capacity of providing less that 10% of this nations energy needs at the current costs...etc.,? Or have you not thought that far ahead? When green energy is competitive to fossil fuel.....then you might have a willing public, but until that time comes this nation still needs national defense.
