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The jam we’re in right now was put in place thirty years ago.  In that time, we’ve gone from being an energy exporter to an energy junkie.  It really doesn’t matter where we get our hit, so long as we don’t have to accept any responsibility for it.  For instance:

Oil - The Democrats absolutely refuse [...]

Tags: anwr, coal, democrats, economy, electric, energy, federal, france, gas, global, global warming, GM, harry reid, hybrid, nancy pelosi, nuclear, oil, opec, palo verde, pelosi, reactor, republicans, trash, warming

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Now, I don’t believe that to be necessarily true, I just can’t find one I think is terribly smart.  Today’s example is Thom Hartmann.  In 2005, he tried convincing people that Jimmy Carter tried to prevent the Bush Energy Disasters - 28 years ago.  Now, the reason he states this is because Jimmy gave a [...]

Tags: 1979, 1980, acid rain, coal, deregulation, energy, gas, global warming, inflation, jimmy carter, liberal, Oil Policy, oil price, thom hartmann, truck strike, unemployment, windfall tax

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Rescuers raced Saturday to pump water out of two coal mines flooded by a rain-swollen river in eastern China, where 181 miners were missing and feared dead.
Water levels were rising, work areas were submerged and the miners “had only slim chances of survival,” the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Wang Ziqi, director of Shandong [...]

Tags: coal, Conspiracy Theories, Energy Policy, mine, nuclear-energy, safety

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For two weeks, six miners have either been trapped in a mine in Utah, or they are by now most likely dead. Last night, while trying to get to those miners, three more died. Shortly after another mining disaster in West Virginia a year and half ago, I did a piece on preventing mine disasters. Apparently [...]

Tags: coal, Energy Policy, mines, mining, nuclear, safety, Utah

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Livescience ran a fairly brief article on the 10 Most Polluted Places in the World.  Without further ado, here they are in alphabetical order by country:

Linfen, China, where residents say they literally choke on coal dust in the evenings, exemplifies many Chinese cities;

Haina, Dominican Republic, has severe lead contamination because of lead battery recycling, a [...]

Tags: Asia, battery, child, china, Chinese, cities, city, coal, experience, global, greenpeace, housing, leather, mine, mines, mining, nuclear, owned, russia, time, war, warming

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An explosion in an eastern Kentucky coal mine killed five miners Saturday, Gov. Ernie Fletcher said. A sixth miner was able to walk away from the blast and out of the mine on his own…
“This tragedy only compounds what has already been a horrific year in America’s coal mines,” Roberts said in a statement.
Earlier this [...]

Tags: coal, death, Energy Policy, ernie-fletcher, kentucky, mine, nuclear-energy, ted-kennedy

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