[outdoorsman43]

I Agree With You 100%, We Need Coal And During Are Lifetimes We Probally Always Will, I Was Just Saying That The Coal Industry doesnt always do what they said therwe going to do and said they did, but just because we need coal doesnt mean we should let them ruin are countys, you understand where im coming from dont you?

I understand where you are coming from. You only understand somewhat of the argument. Accidents (like the incidents you mentioned) are unfortunate, but like the old saying goes, "accidents just happen" and they are going to happen regardless of how we get energy. Nothing in this life is perfect and never will be. As for destruction of mountains and animal habitat, there are more mountains being torn apart for building highways and creating roadways than for mining coal. But, both building highways and mining coal have to be done.

Just imagine if our primary energy source was nuclear energy. Could you imagine the accidents we would have then? It would be much, much worse I promise. If it got into our water supply. That water would be ruined for years and years. I'm just throwing some things out there.

Things could be a lot worse than they are right now.