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25. Utility companies have spent billions on converting their coal fire plants to gas and they aren't going back ...

Reply to Srkdqltr (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:39 PM

Mar 18

… end of story. Gas is cheaper, cleaner,* and much easier to use than coal. I know of a family in
W.V. who were from coal country and had worked in the mines but starting in the 1990s worked
In converting coal plants to gas.

* gas when burned does produce CO 2 and other greenhouse gases.

Coal Kills: The miners, the local environment, and the supportive capacity of the planet’s ecosystem.

Outside of making coke and for certain metallurgical processes it should be left in the ground.

Trump is nutz.

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Just what we need, more pollution sakabatou Mar 17 #1

A lot of coal plants don't exist anymore. The government , to my knowledge, doesn't own power plants. Srkdqltr Mar 17 #2

Utility companies have spent billions on converting their coal fire plants to gas and they aren't going back ... Botany Mar 18 #25

Trump is nuts Srkdqltr Mar 18 #30

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