Retrofit the Navy to all coal-burning ships while youâre at it, you stupid motherfucker. Unbelievable.
Yeah, but if those coal dependent communities have to suffer the way Flint and Detroit and others did from the loss of industries, then Republicans wouldnât be able to point and spit their nonsense about âlook what Democrats do to citiesââŚyou know, which is also one of their favorite uses of the word âDemocratsâ to say ânârs.â
What, you thought they couldnât pull off a sortof double entendre? Think of it this way: if you have tiny methbilly brains containing tiny methbilly lexicons, you have to make use of the few words youâve got by giving them all sorts of double and triple meanings. Iâd almost let them have that as their excuse for all their dogwhistling. ALMOST.
Plus, if these coal towns fail because the industry is allowed to die, then these reliable red voters in reliable red areas would have to move into blue areas to find workâŚand GASP live and work and VOTE among the rest of the country, including âthemâ. How does the largely white Christian nationalist population of Black Lung, KY react when the congressional district next door has to be melded with it for loss of population?
Lumping nuclear and coal together is ridiculous. One produces no greenhouse gases, the other is the dirtiest type of electricity production. The only thing they have in common is that theyâre baseload power supplies. New wind and solar should indeed be replacing coal, but not replacing nuclear. If nuclear were to be rightly categorized as a clean energy source, like wind and solar, and given a fraction of the latterâs subsidies, it would be fine economically. But of course tRump is clueless about all this, as about everything else.
Start running steam powered trains again. They produced the steam with coal.
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Wait! Who put that bicycle in there? Thatâs too librul.
I was at a Sierra Club picnic years ago and the folks there listened with relatively open minds as a local expert on energy told them it wasnât realistic to immediately do away with nuclear as you transitioned to all-renewable energy sources. It was going to be a vital near-term part of the mix, he said. But more and more, Trumpian conservatism is a combination of corrupt power grabs and trolling the libs for the benefit of its mouthbreather base. So there you have two ways of thinking about nuclear. Trump doesnât know a god-damn thing about energy. Heâs paying off people he needs to stay out of jail, like any mobster.
Or you could have hybrid trains, capable of running on coal or wood. Woodburning transpo, libs triggered again ha ha, best of both worlds.
Thatâs an extra added bonus that never occurred to me. hahahahahaha
Isnât he just making word noises for his stupid base with this?
Picking winners and losers now, are we? And how many billion are they willing to spend in order to maintain a misguided campaign promise? My how the screw turns.
Everything is a matter of national security, including tariffs. He really thinks that we are fools. Whatâs happening to checks and balances?
YepâŚgreatest businessman everâŚafter seeing him in action these last couple of years the nation will be broke ,in a trade war and shooting war very soon nowâŚ
remember that it was coal workers that gave trump wins in the SE. Thats why hes using his presidential power to choose who he helps and doesnât. Funny how obama made moves to help the workers move on with training and trump makes moves to enslave themâŚ
I donât know if we had a choice before, but we donât now. What else is ready to go with the same capacity?
Big government regulations, interfering with free markets. The President picking winners and losers.
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âThe Energy Department action, if ordered, would represent an unprecedented intervention into U.S. energy markets.â
Trump: âGroping good!â
Party of Family Values: âYes, sir!â
Trump: âKremlin good!â
Party of Freedom: âYes, sir!â
Trump: âDeficits good!â
Party of Balanced Budgets: âYes, sir!â
Trump: âTariffs good!â
Party of Free Trade: âYes, sir!â
Trump: âMarket intervention good!â
Party of Free Markets: âYes, sir!â
To call Republicans cheap, soulless whores would be an insult to cheap, soulless whores.
Agree. Nuclear has its own issues (generally associated with horrible management and secrecy), but itâs a hell of a lot cleaner than coal. Putting them together is just a gift to that self-righteous mf from the API.
The directive comes as the Trump administration considers a plan to order grid operators to buy electricity from coal and nuclear plants to keep them open. The plan would direct regional transmission operators to buy power from coal and nuclear plants for two years to ensure grid reliability, âpromote the national defense and maximize domestic energy supplies.â
The Energy Department action, if ordered, would represent an unprecedented intervention into U.S. energy markets.
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The draft plan calls for the Energy Department to exercise emergency authority under a pair of federal laws typically reserved for wars or natural disasters. The plan calls for Perry to use the Federal Power Act and the Defense Production Act to temporarily delay retirements of coal and nuclear plants.
Planned economy, how very Soviet. Heâs taking instruction well.
It boggles my mind that the Repugs are afraid of this fool. If they think they are going to win any elections with his voting base and thatâs why they donât want to upset him all I can say is: BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahaha
Theyâre groveling for nothing.
Iâm going to cop to not having read much in this area. I do know that our biggest threat in the decades to come is from climate change, and thatâs not among nuclearâs drawbacks. And I think nineteen times out of twenty a solution to a problem is going to require some sort of sacrifice or compromise.
Most things worth having require some kind of sacrifice somewhere - if nothing else you have to sacrifice perfection for reality.