Even MORE about "A NATIONAL SHAME," Washington caving in to, and paying off, the coal industry.

OUR OWN EPA CONCLUDES: "if the emissions limits go into effect, the US would use more carbon-dioxide-heavy coal in 2020 than it did in 2005."
Please check out previous posts:
The coal problem by the numbers, CLICK HERE, showing that coal usage must be decreased, instead of increased.
Washington caving in to coal, CLICK HERE.
In Europe Carbon Trading has been used, and the results are very disappointing. What is in the coming energy legislation looks good on paper, but in science-based reality is a failure. Why? Let me explain:
A recent scientific report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that a 2-degree Celsius warming of our atmosphere has a 90% chance of undoing the conditions on earth that allowed and supported the development of human civilization.
Scientists from Oxford University, using this report, calculate that we can avoid this potential catastrophic 2-degree warming if we limit our emissions between 2000 and 2050 to 1 trillion metric tons of carbon. They note that we have already burned 25% of that limit since 2000. Increasing coal burning, due to Washington caving in to coal, is true self-destruction!
Obviously, to justify what they are doing, Washington is buying into CO2-sequestering; many scientists see this as putting time bombs into US soil that will stay there for thousands of years to come.In a way of making life easier for the coal industry, and the Union workers that strip-mine our land, Washington is taking $ 1 Billion of your tax money to restart a carbon capture project in Illinois.
Do you know how much the coal industry invested in the 2008 presidential campaign? $ 38 million.
"Obama and House leaders gave the coal guys everything they wanted," said Michael Shellenberger, President, Breakthroug Institute.
What a pay-off! Next thing they'll probably do is to build nuclear reactors, even though, dollar for dollar, PV solar will get you 4 times the electricity. But, heck, it's only your money they spend.
Please check out facts, and what we could/should be doing to solve our energy/environment problems at www.ElToroEXPOSED.com
Solar – PV – already better than coal:
"Already", says Tom Dinwoodie (founder of a market-leading solar firm and a new RMI Trustee), "if you build side-by-side coal and solar plants of equal annual output in (say) New Jersey, starting now, then by the coal plant’s completion, the solar plant will be producing four times its peak output—and cheaper electricity."