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Those who advocate for shutting down coal-fired power plants, and banning the internal combustion engine are doing just that.

Who's suggesting banning internal combustion engines? I don't think anybody is.

There are proposed future bans on sales of _new_ gasoline and diesel vehicles. That's not telling you what fuel you have to use, it's telling you what fuel you _can't_ use.
 
Those who advocate for shutting down coal-fired power plants, and banning the internal combustion engine are doing just that.
Changes in technology are doing it. Our local coal plant closed down, thankfully, because not only is it a terrible source of pollution it's also no longer economically sound to dig coal out of the ground and ship it hundreds of miles to burn inefficiently in a generating plant.
 
Changes in technology are doing it. Our local coal plant closed down, thankfully, because not only is it a terrible source of pollution it's also no longer economically sound to dig coal out of the ground and ship it hundreds of miles to burn inefficiently in a generating plant.
If you are going to blame anyone, blame those greedy capitalists for denying access to coal power.
 
The analysis of U.S. coal plants found 72 percent of existing U.S. coal capacity and 80 percent of existing U.S. coal plants are either more costly to continue operating compared to building new nearby wind or solar plants, or are slated to retire in the next four years.
 
Changes in technology are doing it. Our local coal plant closed down, thankfully, because not only is it a terrible source of pollution it's also no longer economically sound to dig coal out of the ground and ship it hundreds of miles to burn inefficiently in a generating plant.
Let the power engineers decide if coal is still needed or not. Not ignorant environmental activists.
 
Let the power engineers decide if coal is still needed or not. Not ignorant environmental activists.
The engineers don't say whether coal is needed.
The engineers figure out what power is needed.
The rest is policy and economics, and coal is a loser both ways. Even the Trump administration, loaded with coal people, tried to prop up coal and failed miserably.

Obviously coal isn't needed.
Natural gas generation can do everything coal can do faster, cheaper, cleaner, and more efficiently.
That's large majority of how coal had already dropped from 48% of generation in 2008 to 23% in 2019, and the trend is continuing.

Now with renewables having become the cheapest source of new power, plus the large reductions in energy storage cost, the renewable share of that displacement is going to increase. That's not a good thing because it will replace coal, but because it's replacing natural gas replacing coal.
 
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Wyoming is faced by a transition to renewable energy that’s gathering pace across America, but it has now come up with a novel and controversial plan to protect its mining industry – sue other states that refuse to take its coal.

A new state law has created a $1.2m fund to be used by Wyoming’s governor to take legal action against other states that opt to power themselves with clean energy such as solar and wind, in order to meet targets to tackle the climate crisis, rather than burn Wyoming’s coa“In many ways this legal fund sounds crazy, like a Flat Earth idea,” said Rob Godby

 
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Ok then. Let it die on its own. Don't facilitate it.
I’m guessing you’re against emissions regulations for vehicles.

Pollution needs to be legislated out of existence. Since it almost always costs money to clean pollutants it will never happen unless forced by legislation.

Same applies to coal: irrespective of CO2 coal is probably the most polluting way of producing electricity. As pointed out above gas is far cleaner.

In the UK we use nearly zero coal. Some of it has been replaced with gas, some with renewables. It works. It is cleaner. It needed legislation but somehow the lights stayed on in spite of folk like you in the eighties claiming it would be a disaster.
 
The problem is people. So if you aren’t willing to discuss the benefits of multinational genocide we unfortunately nothing to discuss.

also, we need to figure out a way to humanly lower the average life span fo around 50 years old....
The problem is rich people.

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