Any time you have a president saying anything good about an industry it will cause a bump in the industry he's touting. Reagan's candy choices, for example, sold a lot of jelly beans while he was president.Punx0r said:That coal is enjoying a renaissance because a handful of mines in one U.S. state have resumed production as evidence of some politician or other who is going to "save" democracy and take back a country for the people by destroying the tyrants at the U.S. EPA who "hate freedom" and have gotten far too big for their boots.
Chalo said:Things are looking up because it won't be long before human-driven cars are no longer allowed on public roads.
At that point, it won't matter any more what fuel they run on, which means they'll pretty much all be electric for normal city use, because that's most economical and sensible.
Your comments will remain indefinitely on archive.org as an insignificant but decisive testament as to what a colossally stupid set of ideas you bought into. Perhaps one day, academics will dig them up and laugh at you along with today's leadership with puzzlement at how backwards y'all were.
[/quote]billvon said:Any time you have a president saying anything good about an industry it will cause a bump in the industry he's touting. Reagan's candy choices, for example, sold a lot of jelly beans while he was president.Punx0r said:That coal is enjoying a renaissance because a handful of mines in one U.S. state have resumed production as evidence of some politician or other who is going to "save" democracy and take back a country for the people by destroying the tyrants at the U.S. EPA who "hate freedom" and have gotten far too big for their boots.
But in the case of coal it's a tiny spike on an industry that's been in decline for the past 10 years, for half a dozen reasons. Even if you got rid of every environmental rule in the country, and returned us to the days of burning rivers and fatal smogs, you would still have the economic reasons that are driving people to natural gas and renewables over coal.
So while support for a coal 'renaissance' is currently very politically correct, there's not much to it.
No one cares about local partisan politics. AGW is a global issue. Coal and ICE are in decline, renewables and EVs are on the way in. You can shout at the moon all you want, it won't change anything. A sustainable bent is increasingly the social norm, green is nearly cool, conspicuous polluting is increasingly seen as unacceptable. People care what's in their food, their water and nowadays, their air. Clean air is not a left-wing conspiracy.
Punx0r said:lol "hate".
Says the man with an obvious penchant for overly-aggressive responses to a perceived challenge...
solera ebiker said:Judge Roy Moore
1/2 hour to victory!
Chalo said:solera ebiker said:Judge Roy Moore
1/2 hour to victory!
Noted
neptronix said:Hopefully we can get back to a rational discussion here. Jesus...
In some areas. In San Diego there are now enough stations to make it possible to find a charger at least near wherever you are going to go. But in places like New York they are so rare as to be almost unusable.Ecky said:Batteries are larger-enough that it just makes sense to make the cars PEHVs, charging stations are starting to become more common...
Toorbough ULL-Zeveigh said:inside the soopa-secret box consists of 512 guinea pigs running in a ganged array of 8x8x8 hamster wheels (making it a parallel hybrid) pumping out a massive 4 million microwatts (peak) enough to generate a million dollar alternative-energy government grant.