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Originally Posted by 2MuchMark
What you don't get Vendzilla, is that there are plenty of alternatives to generating electricity than coal. Electric cars will make a small difference even if the electricity comes from coal, but they make a bigger difference if the electricity comes solar, Hydro or Nuclear.
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Did you know that hemp plants can be converted into clean-burning charcoal? Why didn't Obama legalize it?
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Originally Posted by 2MuchMark
Sigh...
Work in coal mines has gone down for plenty of reasons: It's old technology, it's expensive, it's dangerous, it's unpopular, and workers are being replaced by robots.
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I live near coal country and am totally anti-coal. The real reason for loss of coal jobs is the MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL. Rather than hire people to dig coal underground, they just use a few tons of explosives to blow the top off the mountain, then push the debris over the hill- burying thousands of miles of streams. It's disgusting. Coal production has INCREASED with fewer workers.
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Originally Posted by bronco67
I guess that means we should just stick with the internal combustion engine because old ass fools like yourself hate change.
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The internal combustion engine is NOT THE PROBLEM. It's the petroleum fuel. Rudolph Diesel designed the diesel engine to run on peanut oil. Henry Ford was building cars that ran on clean Ethanol from plants (mainly hemp). Congress outlawed hemp in 1937 after the oil companies lobbied for it. Ford's hemp car was 3 times as green as today's electric cars.