[Coach_Owens87]

At least one poster against coal on here studies something. You've stated some disadvantages that coal operations "cause", so why not look at the advantages? I'm pretty sure it's a no-contest advantages over the disadvantages. I doubt you will see it that way, but might when you're paying the utility bills in a few years. :biggrin:

I have looked at the "advantages", if you can call it that. Coal provides jobs, cheap energy (but very dirty), and is very important to our economy. But the nation is changing, people see that our old ways are destroying our planet. We cant continue to do things the way we are now. At some point, we will have to get away from coal, so why not start that change now, lets begin to make this transition, and stop holding ourselves back. People in the coal industry claim that coal is our only hope for the economy, and if there is any truth to that, its no ones fault but our own. We have to look past coal, because one day it will be gone.