Note the Scientific American article stating that regulations from EPA will effectively end the development of new coal-fired plants and eventually force current ones out of business. Hey, we can replace them with cheap oil, right? I mean, coal only manages 23% of our nation’s fuel/energy.
The good news is that we’ll be able to export all of that coal to other nations to pollute the atmosphere with, while our energy production goes down, and gas/oil prices jump up to replace coal. And of course, we’ll have to get more of that oil elsewhere, because we aren’t allowed to pump/refine it here. And the transportation of oil to USA, and transportation of coal elsewhere will also add to cost and pollution.
So, who wins?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-end-of-coal-burning-in-the-us