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Originally Posted by Ohio

Very important for the forgotten miners in PA, WV, and KY.

My point was that he did bring back Christmas for all the good little corporations, filling their stockings with very fat permanent tax breaks, and he balanced this by giving coal to all the bad little poor people who live next to the coal plants and breathe in the fumes.

Originally Posted by Ohio

But for the wealthy coastline liberals, they could care less and long as their new I-Phone works.

Not true, the wealthy coastline liberals like myself do care. We care about the carcinogens and asthma that comes from burning coal. We care about the intentional disinformation of labeling it "clean coal". We care that the big power companies are doing everything in their ability to prevent people from buying solar. In Florida it is illegal to buy solar except through the local power company. In NY the power companies are putting together a class action suit against the solar companies on bogus charges (we were invited to join the class action suit but declined). Now even though the US has cleaned up its act significantly, it is still a cumulative sum game. When you look at cities in China and India and the smog from their coal you can see just how polluting and deadly it is.

Here is another thing we care about. The price of solar is directly related to the volume of sales. As more solar is sold the price comes down. As of this year solar is now cheaper than coal. If the US, China and India combined forces we could drive the price down incredibly, so much so that you would see it adopted worldwide, just like smart phones. China and India are doing this, but where or where is the US? Are we really going to let this technology go to the Asians like we did with transistors?