[thecavemaster]

I quick response a little off topic, but how is the Bush Administration passing new MTR laws? Aren't both the House and Senate controlled by Democrats? I do believe it has to be approved by both before Bush has a say in it.

Also, MTR keeps the Eastern KY & SW West Virginia economies afloat. There are not enough coal seams for it to be practical to do underground mining as efficiently as MTR can be done. Not to mention, in the mountainous region where this takes place, it provides level ground for development that otherwise could not happen..ie..Airports, Golf Courses, possible Coal to Liquidation Plants, factories.

Beef, you may have just given one of
the most straightforward statements
of "the needs of man above all" I
have read of late. Human economics,
human development projects: It
was practical and useful to execute
Jesus, but in the long run, it proved
disastrous for the polity of Jerusalem;
so it is with short sighted, anthropocentric
policies.