On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:58:23 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

Eventually, we should move away from coal as we develop better ways to
make electricity, but it isn't going to happen within the lifetime of
any of our grandchildren.

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I think you may be surprised. We have enough natural gas to get off
of coal right now if we had the distribution infrastructure to get the
gas where it is needed, and if we gave the plants some reasonable
amount of time to convert. I believe coal will be well on the way
out within 10 years or so.