Discussion: Pruitt: 'If We Really Care About Clean Air' We Should Export More American Coal

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Dear dog, the man is an idiot.

Hey Pruitt, the rest of the world is smart enough not to invest in 19th century technology. And they already have fracking and horizontal drilling technology, as anyone in the energy industry can tell you.

Dangerous idiot.

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when you want to say something sarcastic and funny, but reality trumps anything you can come up with.

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“A former coal lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, currently serves as the EPA’s second in command.”

End of story.

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The easiest way to improve air quality in the US is to raise the permissible limits on harmful pollutants. That would be a GOP win-win, eliminating needless government regulation that reduces corporate profit while simultaneously improving the quality of the air we breathe. Think of it as the Laffer Curve for the environment.

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Clean coal, clean diesel, Easter Bunny. What’s the difference?

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You can find the Easter bunny at shopping locations nationwide. The other two are fantasies.

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If you don’t believe carbon dioxide is a pollutant, this statement is technically true. It’s the same reason, or one of the reasons, the demand for coal from Kentucky and West Virginia plummeted as the Wyoming and Montana strip mines grew. The coal from the giant strip mines in Wyoming and Montana is damn near pure carbon with a bit of hydrogen. Virtually no sulfur or heavy metals compared to other coals.

This is a thing that someone in the Carter DoE might well have been heard saying with no real objections from anyone except the mining interests in Kentucky and West Virginia where basically the only mines left in operation are the ones that produce coal of comparable quality and a few that serve coal plants that made a heavy investment in pollution abatement technology so they could take advantage of the transport cost advantage.

But the thing is, it isn’t the 1970’s, it’s the 2010’s and we now realize carbon dioxide is an existential threat to humanity and that even the cleanest coal ever dug still poisons the food chain with mercury. And that’s why it sounds crazy to us. Just like “pet rocks,” “cocaine is harmless, fun and non-addictive,” “Starsky and Hutch is great TV,” and “price controls” sound crazy to us.

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Yea, let’s export a product no one wants and is actually actively moving away from. When everyone else is striving to go emissions free with solar, wind, etc we go back to the 1870s tech. Great job “Brownie”.

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"And if those countries would simply adopt what we’re doing here, air quality in the United States would be better, and it would be better in those areas as well.”

Or everyone could be more like The Netherlands.

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OT but I needed to share this .
My area
These are the Trump & Roseanne supporters here in Redneckistan Central Florida
Sad. Read the comments. I work around these people

Area Republicans amused by Jarrett/ape post on Facebook

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Lots of times I hit that wall
So stupid it hurts

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Easter Bunny got CHOCLIT!

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I often refer to my humanoid companion as “my pet rock.”

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Jeebus. There’s only 12,000 coal workers left. Let’s give them a pension and be done with coal already. It would be much, much cheaper in every way.

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A parking lot in Haarlem:

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My first foreign travel was as a teenager to Denmark. About a third of the major downtown streets in Copenhagen were sectioned off for bicycles. Everybody rode them—housewives, business dudes, a cross-section. I’d never seen such a thing in my life.

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Absolutely right. I got nothing.

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