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Re: Boardman Oregon Coal Plant shutting down
Author: Ok boomer
Date: 10-16-2020 - 13:36
Most coal plants are shutting down due to the low price of natural gas, which is a direct result of fracking and “drill baby drill”. Economics 101.
old dawg Wrote:
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> I guess yesterday the official word was handed
> down to the effect of the Boardman coal plant
> being shuttered. I'm not a fan for polluting the
> hillsides with thousands of wind turbines. (I'm
> also still leary about all the damn SUBSIDIES this
> wind turbine industry is getting, but that's
> another story)
I’m not a fan of polluting the air with a bunch of nasty heavy metals and climate warming CO2. I’m also still leary of all the subsidies the coal industry is getting but that’s another story. If I have to pay a few cents more per kilowatt hour that’s a more than reasonable compromise for no more dirty coal.
> The point I want to bring around
> is a matter of protection. In a hypothetical
> emphasis, if I'm paying $3 per kilowatt hour,
> there's NOTHING to stop a power company to sell
> the same power to anybody willing to pay more.
There is/was nothing to stop a power company form doing the same with coal produced power.
> Should we suffer with brown outs or black outs in
> the future, just remember the stupidity being
> displayed today.
We are seeing the results of climate change and the catastrophic weather events NOW due to the greed and selfishness that took place in the past.
old dawg Wrote:
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> I guess yesterday the official word was handed
> down to the effect of the Boardman coal plant
> being shuttered. I'm not a fan for polluting the
> hillsides with thousands of wind turbines. (I'm
> also still leary about all the damn SUBSIDIES this
> wind turbine industry is getting, but that's
> another story)
I’m not a fan of polluting the air with a bunch of nasty heavy metals and climate warming CO2. I’m also still leary of all the subsidies the coal industry is getting but that’s another story. If I have to pay a few cents more per kilowatt hour that’s a more than reasonable compromise for no more dirty coal.
> The point I want to bring around
> is a matter of protection. In a hypothetical
> emphasis, if I'm paying $3 per kilowatt hour,
> there's NOTHING to stop a power company to sell
> the same power to anybody willing to pay more.
There is/was nothing to stop a power company form doing the same with coal produced power.
> Should we suffer with brown outs or black outs in
> the future, just remember the stupidity being
> displayed today.
We are seeing the results of climate change and the catastrophic weather events NOW due to the greed and selfishness that took place in the past.
