There's actually good reasons to want coal use trimmed and then shut down. Coal is the worst fuel from the point of view of global warming. With fracking, we can get enough natural gas to run our generators without using coal and without its costing any more. Same energy, half the CO2.
We're already taking some hits from the climate change that has happened so far. At the rate the world is burning coal (and other fossil fuels) we're on track to make the problem twice as bad as it is now in just another 20 years. We're heading off a cliff and everybody on the right is yelling "faster".
The first job of a true conservative is to conserve and defend the future. Not close it off. The physical basis for farming is a suitable climate.
Doctor Roy wrote: You guys remember when I told you that corporations are not persons and money is not free speech? And that Citizens United would come back and bite you all in the behind? And that the only way to stop the shenanigans is to take the money out of getting elected? Well just chalk all this up to your "free speech". This is what you want. So this is what you get. -Cleared of Ethics Charges, Maxine Waters Ready to Write Bank Laws
Dear Comrade Doctor,
You have cause and effect jumbled up as most liberal ground troops...
Global Cooling/warming/climate change has been going on longer than Man has inhabitated Earth and when EVIDENCE [not theory or comprter modeling] proves otherwise I will get on board. Otherwise crawl back under mommies apron.
An assertion is not proof. When you have proof that the contribution of man to global warming is material, please present it,