The Hidden Giant
With all the worry about the prices of both gasoline- and natural gas for heating our homes in winter, nobody's paying a lot of attention to this little guy-
Yep. The very lump we all feared in our Christmas stockings....those sooty chunks that make possible over half of the electrical power production in the United States, and it's skyrocketing in price.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sunday edition,
We have another 3 years to address this situation. I'm hoping this becomes a priority with legislators. We've been raped on gasoline, we're being raped in our food markets because of it, and now with coal costs soaring, we may very well freeze to death in the long, dark winters when the rate caps come off. (Yes, I realize that if coal is more expensive to buy, the electrical companies have greater costs in order to generate their power--- but this is a situation that's going on right now, and their corporations are still seeing profits- or by God, they'd be going under like some of our banks.)
Just as the health insurers moan about needing to increase healthcare costs, and yet their top executives make $100,000.00 bonuses while they continue to build state-of-the-art home offices and advertize on every media known. That all takes big, big budgets. TRIM THE F*CKING FAT!
Don't try and tell me the hellacious jump in prices will be merited.
I believe that will happen because the 'play nice and grab customers' restraint will be off, and it'll be back to business as usual: ROBBER BARONS will be able to ride again- right across the backs of middle America....Yeeeeeee- haaah! This needs to be f*king addressed, people...3 years is enough time to legislate, REGULATE, and put the brakes on as they salivate and rub their hands in anticipation of the killings to come.
We all know that cleaner energy sources- solar or wind power, or the yet undiscovered solutions to our problem is the goal of the future, but 3 years is not enough time to do anything about the disaster we're stuck with-- the one that's now hanging over our heads and ready to drop. The only present solution is to take a good hard look at this, get the word out there and talk about it 'talk about it talk about it'-- because it's building right now, nicely hidden under the more apparent emergencies that have already reached critical mass.
This is a BIG ONE, and we need to put regulation back in place inside a very solid framework before we're shivering in our homes, lights out, and wondering where in the hell this came from?
It's coming from right now. Wake up and do your homework.
Yep. The very lump we all feared in our Christmas stockings....those sooty chunks that make possible over half of the electrical power production in the United States, and it's skyrocketing in price.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sunday edition,
"The spot price for northern Appalachian coal -- which includes coal mined in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia -- was $138 a ton last week, more than double the $55-a-ton price of a year ago and four times what it was in 2000."So what does this mean? Here in Pennsylvania, we've had our electrical utilities deregulated a while back to encourage 'free enterprise' and 'healthy competition'-- that perilous mind set that believes 'free markets will police themselves'......so of course, we're going to 'buy the farm' when rate agreements set in 1996 are lifted in 2011. Estimates of as much as 63% are the current thinking.
We have another 3 years to address this situation. I'm hoping this becomes a priority with legislators. We've been raped on gasoline, we're being raped in our food markets because of it, and now with coal costs soaring, we may very well freeze to death in the long, dark winters when the rate caps come off. (Yes, I realize that if coal is more expensive to buy, the electrical companies have greater costs in order to generate their power--- but this is a situation that's going on right now, and their corporations are still seeing profits- or by God, they'd be going under like some of our banks.)
Just as the health insurers moan about needing to increase healthcare costs, and yet their top executives make $100,000.00 bonuses while they continue to build state-of-the-art home offices and advertize on every media known. That all takes big, big budgets. TRIM THE F*CKING FAT!
Don't try and tell me the hellacious jump in prices will be merited.
I believe that will happen because the 'play nice and grab customers' restraint will be off, and it'll be back to business as usual: ROBBER BARONS will be able to ride again- right across the backs of middle America....Yeeeeeee- haaah! This needs to be f*king addressed, people...3 years is enough time to legislate, REGULATE, and put the brakes on as they salivate and rub their hands in anticipation of the killings to come.
We all know that cleaner energy sources- solar or wind power, or the yet undiscovered solutions to our problem is the goal of the future, but 3 years is not enough time to do anything about the disaster we're stuck with-- the one that's now hanging over our heads and ready to drop. The only present solution is to take a good hard look at this, get the word out there and talk about it 'talk about it talk about it'-- because it's building right now, nicely hidden under the more apparent emergencies that have already reached critical mass.
This is a BIG ONE, and we need to put regulation back in place inside a very solid framework before we're shivering in our homes, lights out, and wondering where in the hell this came from?
It's coming from right now. Wake up and do your homework.
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