On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:27:16 -0400, Eisboch wrote:


That's one of the problems. Whenever anybody thinks of coal, they
automatically think strip mining.
Strip mining is only one of several ways to recover coal, and there are
different types of coal, each with it's own properties that are suitable
for different purposes.

We have a whole civilization dependent on oil for survival. That won't
change overnight and real time political issues may cause severe
problems in the short term that unfortunately can only be addressed with
military force. It seems to me that a rational, well planned program to
reduce dependency on foreign oil by using resources controlled by us as
a temporary "fix" while new, high tech energy sources are developed
makes sense.

Eisboch

Damn, shades of Jimmy Carter, 30 years later.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/...ps_energy.html