Obama's War On Coal : Obama's War On Prosperity

The war on coal, like Mr Obama war on all fossil fuels, is all about control through politics. If this destructive agenda hurts the country is of no consequences to the progressive left who pursue renewable energy sources like wind and solar.

That more then 10,000 jobs have been lost already in the coal industry means nothing to the progressive and their allies in the environmental business, and it is a business with huge amounts of tax dollar being pumped into sustaining the outrage of fossil fuels supposedly destroying the earth.

Note, that it was just three years ago that the EPA issued new and tough regulation on the coal industry, but now the are coming back again this year with even more regulations that are guaranteed to destroy all coal fired energy production in less then a decade.

America has more then 200 years of coal reserves that can be used to supply our industry and homes with good clean energy and maintain thousands of jobs is of no importance. It's the ideology of power and control by those that believe they are smarter and more capable to rule over us all.

Here again it's the use of fear and intimidation that is on display to gain control of the population to do their collective bidding.

Obama's War on Coal Harms Americans
Source: Ashe Schow, "'War on Coal': 207 Coal Plants Will Close In the Next Decade," Washington Examiner, August 6, 2013.
August 9, 2013

President Obama's apparent "war on coal" will result in 207 coal plants shuttering their doors over the next decade or so, according to Reuters. Whether due to environmental regulations or cheap natural gas (which the Environmental Protection Agency is also eyeing suspiciously via potential fracking regulations), these coal plants will close their doors, resulting in a loss of over 40,000 megawatts of electricity, says the Washington Examiner.

That's less than 1 percent of all the electricity used by the country in a year, but because multiple plants are closing in the same location, energy prices for people living within their reach will increase. Not to mention the job losses from closing those plants.

• As 207 plants are slated to close, 138 have already shut down since Obama took office in 2009 and began his anti-coal onslaught.
• If all 207 of those facilities cease operating, it will leave the nation with 439 coal-fired plants, a loss of 32 percent of the nation's coal plants.
• Coal currently accounts for about 40 percent of the nation's energy supply, so losing this many coal plants will be devastating.
• Renewable energy (including wind, solar, geothermal and others) account for only 12 percent of current consumption, and that percentage isn't growing very quickly.

These coal plants will have to be replaced with newer, more expensive forms of energy, like renewables. Some of the plants are being converted into natural gas plants, but building new power supplies will be costly.