It's easy to restrict coal-fired plants because of global warming, but has it occurred to anyone that there are union jobs at stake in coal mines across the country. And what about the union jobs in the coal-fired plants themselves?
We need to replace the power before we take these plants off line. Solar won't work in the Northeast. Wind won't work either. So what are we left with?
Nuclear? Nobody will support nuclear plants even if they were perfectly safe.
Natural gas? Uh, New York is going insane over frakking upstate. Where will we get the gas?
I wrote a diary criticizing Obama's handlers for some bad optics and got jumped for not toeing the party line. I guess I'll get jumped over this too.