‘Slaves to Industry’

elway777 wrote:

"Personally I do not want to pay a lot more for clean energy"

No one does, and that's part of the problem. It's made it very painful to switch to cleaner alternatives. Americans have been getting their evergy for cheap for so long because someone else is paying the true cost.

Are you willing to drink poisoned water if it means your energy bill is smaller? Or to let your children drink poisioned water? Or is it only okay if it's someone else's children? At what point do we decide that cheap energy is actually far too expensive?

Nice work, Ms. Bonds. Time more people took a stand against polluters.

As a left-coast Angeleno, I discovered that this article is saying all the things I've been saying for years. Why has it takien the media so long to recognize that the environment is everybody's business, not just the concern of latte-sipping liberals?(Low fat lattes ONLY, please.) As far as CNG is concerned. Getting CNG from the ground is also a toxic process and the toxic wastes seep into the ground water.
BETTER, we can get methane from certain strands of bacteria. We can also get gasoline subsitutes from algae and kelp. (We could use the exhausts of coal-fired power plants to produce algae.) I am not necessarily opposed to natural gas, but the natural gas industry MUST clean up its act. It must be responsible and legally accountable for preventing all forms of pollution. When natural gas industries are forced to pay the costs of the damage they do to the environment, CNG is not as cheap as it appears.

Tell the US politicians about CNG. It's green enough to cook a burger on, we have lots of it, it is less expensive than gasoline and we don't need any from the Arabs. Isn't that enough to get anybody's attention? The automakers could be back at work in 3-6 months if they would build CNG powered vehicles and the US natural gas supplies will get us through the transition stage to solar, wind, or whatever. You also get hydrogen from natural gas. Wake up America. We have more natural gas than most countries in the world. You could put a put the US Energy workers back to work. What is going on? Does this make too much sense for this government? You can not cook a burger on coal.

The large coal companies were the"carpet baggers" of that era who came down from northern cities and took land for pennies that they knew was worth millions. My grandfather sold his prime land for $2.00 / acre to Pittsburg Mining and they made millions from it when he receive less than $500.00.

The Justice department was aware of these shenanigans and stood idly by even after complaints from former owners. This should be the next "tobacco" settlement because it was n othing less than fraud being perpetrated on an uneducated, trusting society of mountain people.

Chip-Sarasota

She is very right when you realize she is talking about these dirty coal companies taking the mountains away. If you ever grew up loving a place where there were pristene streams and a mountain view then you see black water, dead fish, mountaintop gone, and the kids doing sports wearing a mask to try to protect their lungs while they run, you KNOW there is something wrong with this picture. Do they somehow think a little money is worth taking the MOUNTAINS away? That good tasting sweet water is going to be gone forever.

The coal industry has always been alowed, by the government, to "skirt" E.P.A. laws. It is sad that our main domestic source of energy cannot be more environmentaly friendly, but when you consider that coal is essentialy made from petroleum, you can't help but realize that we are releasing oil into the environment, not only by burning it, but also by mining it.