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		<title>By: forxy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/lamar-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-5605402</link>
		<dc:creator>forxy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>coal is cool

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		<title>By: Hoodathunk</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/lamar-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-5416798</link>
		<dc:creator>Hoodathunk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So now we are blaming things on cow farts?  Ironic since we have a massive source of combustible gas, totally renewing and we ignore it for the most part.  Its called methane and it is generated by every waste treatment facility in the country.  Most of it gets burned off by those big torch candles one sees burning 24/7 over the holding ponds.

The interest in using methane is growing but it is slow.  It is cheap, easy to produce and store and as long as there is shit, people or critter, there is gas.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So now we are blaming things on cow farts?  Ironic since we have a massive source of combustible gas, totally renewing and we ignore it for the most part.  Its called methane and it is generated by every waste treatment facility in the country.  Most of it gets burned off by those big torch candles one sees burning 24/7 over the holding ponds.</p>
<p>The interest in using methane is growing but it is slow.  It is cheap, easy to produce and store and as long as there is shit, people or critter, there is gas.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416798', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Constant Weader</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/lamar-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-5416752</link>
		<dc:creator>Constant Weader</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wonder what Alexander&#039;s voting record is on &quot;clean&quot; coal. It usually takes an obvious environmental disaster to get Republicans to even think about taking sensible measures -- much less actually propose, push and vote for them.

The Constant Weader at www.RealityChex.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wonder what Alexander&#8217;s voting record is on &#8220;clean&#8221; coal. It usually takes an obvious environmental disaster to get Republicans to even think about taking sensible measures &#8212; much less actually propose, push and vote for them.</p>
<p>The Constant Weader at <a href="http://www.RealityChex.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.RealityChex.com</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416752', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Alejandro</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/lamar-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-5416728</link>
		<dc:creator>Alejandro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;COProgressive Says:
Okay, someone please explain to me how digging, mining, or drilling carbon based fuels that have been buried in the earth for millions of years, and then burning them in our atmosphere releasing CO2 into the air we breath makes sense.

Someone please explain to me how burning carbon based fuels for energy can be cleaner than energy from the Sun, wind or tides.

Someone please tell me why we are still burning dirty fuel?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

1. It&#039;s cheap
2. It&#039;s easy</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>COProgressive Says:<br />
Okay, someone please explain to me how digging, mining, or drilling carbon based fuels that have been buried in the earth for millions of years, and then burning them in our atmosphere releasing CO2 into the air we breath makes sense.</p>
<p>Someone please explain to me how burning carbon based fuels for energy can be cleaner than energy from the Sun, wind or tides.</p>
<p>Someone please tell me why we are still burning dirty fuel?</p></blockquote>
<p>1. It&#8217;s cheap<br />
2. It&#8217;s easy<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416728', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Alejandro</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/lamar-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-5416726</link>
		<dc:creator>Alejandro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;OProgressive Says:
Alejandro Says:
And there are no hydrogen refilling stations along the way.

Now here’s an opportunity in the waiting. What is this, the chicken or the egg theory? No Hydrogen cars because there’s no hydrogen refilling stations, or no hydrogen refilling stations because there are no hydrogen cars.

But there is another problem. The oil companies don’t want the gas stations to sell alternative fuels. You can’t find E85 fuel and BIG OIL stations. Here in Colorado only small independents stations sell E85. Do you think BIG OIL would spend the money to add hydrogen pumps at their GAS stations?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

There is no hydrogen.

Or more accurately, there is no hydrogen that you can produce without also producing CO2, at least not in large quantities. 

Then you have the energy balance problem. It takes energy to produce hydrogen. Then it takes more to compress it and store it and transport it. 

Hydrogen is not an energy source and is a terrible fuel.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>OProgressive Says:<br />
Alejandro Says:<br />
And there are no hydrogen refilling stations along the way.</p>
<p>Now here’s an opportunity in the waiting. What is this, the chicken or the egg theory? No Hydrogen cars because there’s no hydrogen refilling stations, or no hydrogen refilling stations because there are no hydrogen cars.</p>
<p>But there is another problem. The oil companies don’t want the gas stations to sell alternative fuels. You can’t find E85 fuel and BIG OIL stations. Here in Colorado only small independents stations sell E85. Do you think BIG OIL would spend the money to add hydrogen pumps at their GAS stations?</p></blockquote>
<p>There is no hydrogen.</p>
<p>Or more accurately, there is no hydrogen that you can produce without also producing CO2, at least not in large quantities. </p>
<p>Then you have the energy balance problem. It takes energy to produce hydrogen. Then it takes more to compress it and store it and transport it. </p>
<p>Hydrogen is not an energy source and is a terrible fuel.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416726', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Perry logan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Perry logan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s time to go vegetarian, people:
&lt;blockquote&gt;Those of you concerned about climate change may already know that &lt;strong&gt;one of the more significant changes an individual can make is to reduce the consumption of meat&lt;/strong&gt;. In an article yesterday (“Meat is Murder on the Environment”), New Scientist reported on a study by Ogino and colleagues in this month’s Animal Science Journal that analyzes, in detail, beef’s environmental impact. It concludes:
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights on back home.&lt;/em&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
(It should be noted that the three-hour drive is based on emissions from European cars; the fuel efficiency of American cars is much worse and so the equivalent driving time would be less in the United States.) &lt;/blockquote&gt;
http://imparo.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/vegetarianism-vs-meat-eating-and-global-warming/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s time to go vegetarian, people:</p>
<blockquote><p>Those of you concerned about climate change may already know that <strong>one of the more significant changes an individual can make is to reduce the consumption of meat</strong>. In an article yesterday (“Meat is Murder on the Environment”), New Scientist reported on a study by Ogino and colleagues in this month’s Animal Science Journal that analyzes, in detail, beef’s environmental impact. It concludes:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights on back home.</em>
</p></blockquote>
<p>(It should be noted that the three-hour drive is based on emissions from European cars; the fuel efficiency of American cars is much worse and so the equivalent driving time would be less in the United States.) </p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://imparo.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/vegetarianism-vs-meat-eating-and-global-warming/" rel="nofollow">http://imparo.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/vegetarianism-vs-meat-eating-and-global-warming/</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416712', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: DNFP</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/lamar-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-5416632</link>
		<dc:creator>DNFP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Someone please tell me why we are still burning dirty fuel?
&lt;/em&gt;

Or even better, why do we still heat water, producing steam, to spin turbines? Even in a &quot;nuke-u-lar&quot; reactor, the nuclear fuel is simply used to produce heated water???

The whole means for electric power generation needs an overhaul.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Someone please tell me why we are still burning dirty fuel?<br />
</em></p>
<p>Or even better, why do we still heat water, producing steam, to spin turbines? Even in a &#8220;nuke-u-lar&#8221; reactor, the nuclear fuel is simply used to produce heated water???</p>
<p>The whole means for electric power generation needs an overhaul.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416632', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Southern Beale</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/lamar-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-5416610</link>
		<dc:creator>Southern Beale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lamar Alexander did anything BUT challenge the myth of clean coal. In fact, he&#039;s been a major proponent of it. I live-blogged the hearings yesterday and he made a point of asking TVA CEO Tom Kilgore what the cost is per kilowatt hour to generate electricity with coal versus natural gas, hydro, solar and wind. Alexander is a major anti-wind crusader and he used what was supposed to be an oversight hearing to score points in his personal pet peeve. 

Lamar Alexander is a tool and fool, and the people of Tennessee are stuck with him for another 6 years.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lamar Alexander did anything BUT challenge the myth of clean coal. In fact, he&#8217;s been a major proponent of it. I live-blogged the hearings yesterday and he made a point of asking TVA CEO Tom Kilgore what the cost is per kilowatt hour to generate electricity with coal versus natural gas, hydro, solar and wind. Alexander is a major anti-wind crusader and he used what was supposed to be an oversight hearing to score points in his personal pet peeve. </p>
<p>Lamar Alexander is a tool and fool, and the people of Tennessee are stuck with him for another 6 years.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416610', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Tropics500</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/lamar-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-5416594</link>
		<dc:creator>Tropics500</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/03/21/obama-green-coal/</description>
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		<title>By: Tropics500</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/lamar-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-5416592</link>
		<dc:creator>Tropics500</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama is a &#039;clean coal&#039; guy, a fact that you Obamaniacs chose to ignore when you were pushing him for POTUS. His green inititives is lip service. No actually, it&#039;s complete bu11sh*t.

The beat goes on.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barack_Obama_statements_on_coal</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama is a &#8216;clean coal&#8217; guy, a fact that you Obamaniacs chose to ignore when you were pushing him for POTUS. His green inititives is lip service. No actually, it&#8217;s complete bu11sh*t.</p>
<p>The beat goes on.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barack_Obama_statements_on_coal" rel="nofollow">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Barack_Obama_statements_on_coal</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416592', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Keith</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/lamar-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-5416546</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear TP,

It&#039;s not just Tennessee, as this tip I gave you 18 hours ago shows:

Toxic coal ash piling up in ponds in &lt;strong&gt;32 states&lt;/strong&gt;
By DINA CAPPIELLO (Associated Press Writer)

From Associated Press

January 09, 2009 3:47 AM EST
WASHINGTON - Millions of tons of toxic coal ash is piling up in power plant ponds in 32 states, a practice the federal government has long recognized as a risk to human health and the environment but has left unregulated.

An Associated Press an@lysis of the most recent Energy Department data found that &lt;strong&gt;156&lt;/strong&gt; coal-fired power plants store ash in surface ponds similar to the one that collapsed last month in Tennessee.

Records indicate that states storing the most coal ash in ponds are Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama.

[dang filter!]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear TP,</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not just Tennessee, as this tip I gave you 18 hours ago shows:</p>
<p>Toxic coal ash piling up in ponds in <strong>32 states</strong><br />
By DINA CAPPIELLO (Associated Press Writer)</p>
<p>From Associated Press</p>
<p>January 09, 2009 3:47 AM EST<br />
WASHINGTON &#8211; Millions of tons of toxic coal ash is piling up in power plant ponds in 32 states, a practice the federal government has long recognized as a risk to human health and the environment but has left unregulated.</p>
<p>An Associated Press an@lysis of the most recent Energy Department data found that <strong>156</strong> coal-fired power plants store ash in surface ponds similar to the one that collapsed last month in Tennessee.</p>
<p>Records indicate that states storing the most coal ash in ponds are Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia and Alabama.</p>
<p>[dang filter!]<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416546', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: katy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/lamar-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-5416486</link>
		<dc:creator>katy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Obama renewables plan more ambitious than appears&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://uk.reuters.com/article/behindTheScenes/idUKTRE5086Y220090109&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Reuters &lt;/a&gt;- 1 hour ago
By Nichola Groom - Analysis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama&#039;s call for an ambitious renewable energy plan &lt;strong&gt;underscores just how bad things have gotten&lt;/strong&gt; for makers of solar panels and wind turbines.&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>Obama renewables plan more ambitious than appears</strong><br />
<a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/behindTheScenes/idUKTRE5086Y220090109" rel="nofollow">Reuters </a>- 1 hour ago<br />
By Nichola Groom &#8211; Analysis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) &#8211; President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s call for an ambitious renewable energy plan <strong>underscores just how bad things have gotten</strong> for makers of solar panels and wind turbines.</em><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416486', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Deschanel</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/lamar-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-5416434</link>
		<dc:creator>Deschanel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>About the second spill, if they say 10,000 gallons, we can be sure it&#039;s probably closer to 100,000.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>About the second spill, if they say 10,000 gallons, we can be sure it&#8217;s probably closer to 100,000.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416434', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Nevar</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/lamar-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-5416428</link>
		<dc:creator>Nevar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My computer is solar powered.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My computer is solar powered&#8230;..<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416428', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Max-1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Max-1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well Shayne,
At least Yucca Mountain is nuclear free still...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well Shayne,<br />
At least Yucca Mountain is nuclear free still&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416378', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Nevar</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/09/lamar-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-5416372</link>
		<dc:creator>Nevar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Someone please tell me why we are still burning dirty fuel?&lt;/em&gt;

Built upon antiquated mining and mineral resource laws, private companies, and now corporations, are able to extract phenomenal wealth from the resources which by good rights belong to the citizens of the land. It&#039;s cheap, they exert power over the legislatures, and they exploit labor and land.
 It&#039;s way past time for mineral and energy resources to be nationalized, for the good of all, and end the obscene profits and environmental disaster of the robber baron corporations.

If we think the spills and pollution in this country are a disaster, they&#039;re little more than a spot on the carpet compared to every other oil, coal and mining area of the world.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Someone please tell me why we are still burning dirty fuel?</em></p>
<p>Built upon antiquated mining and mineral resource laws, private companies, and now corporations, are able to extract phenomenal wealth from the resources which by good rights belong to the citizens of the land. It&#8217;s cheap, they exert power over the legislatures, and they exploit labor and land.<br />
 It&#8217;s way past time for mineral and energy resources to be nationalized, for the good of all, and end the obscene profits and environmental disaster of the robber baron corporations.</p>
<p>If we think the spills and pollution in this country are a disaster, they&#8217;re little more than a spot on the carpet compared to every other oil, coal and mining area of the world.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416372', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: COProgressive</title>
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		<dc:creator>COProgressive</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Alejandro Says:
And there are no hydrogen refilling stations along the way.&lt;/em&gt;

Now here&#039;s an opportunity in the waiting.  What is this, the chicken or the egg theory?  No Hydrogen cars because there&#039;s no hydrogen refilling stations, or no hydrogen refilling stations because there are no hydrogen cars.

But there is another problem.  The oil companies don&#039;t want the gas stations to sell alternative fuels.  You can&#039;t find E85 fuel and BIG OIL stations.  Here in Colorado only small independents stations sell E85.  Do you think BIG OIL would spend the money to add hydrogen pumps at their GAS stations?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Alejandro Says:<br />
And there are no hydrogen refilling stations along the way.</em></p>
<p>Now here&#8217;s an opportunity in the waiting.  What is this, the chicken or the egg theory?  No Hydrogen cars because there&#8217;s no hydrogen refilling stations, or no hydrogen refilling stations because there are no hydrogen cars.</p>
<p>But there is another problem.  The oil companies don&#8217;t want the gas stations to sell alternative fuels.  You can&#8217;t find E85 fuel and BIG OIL stations.  Here in Colorado only small independents stations sell E85.  Do you think BIG OIL would spend the money to add hydrogen pumps at their GAS stations?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416362', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: COProgressive</title>
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		<dc:creator>COProgressive</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Okay, someone please explain to me how digging, mining, or drilling carbon based fuels that have been buried in the earth for millions of years, and then burning them in our atmosphere releasing CO2 into the air we breath makes sense.

Someone please explain to me how burning carbon based fuels for energy can be cleaner than energy from the Sun, wind or tides.

Someone please tell me why we are still burning dirty fuel?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, someone please explain to me how digging, mining, or drilling carbon based fuels that have been buried in the earth for millions of years, and then burning them in our atmosphere releasing CO2 into the air we breath makes sense.</p>
<p>Someone please explain to me how burning carbon based fuels for energy can be cleaner than energy from the Sun, wind or tides.</p>
<p>Someone please tell me why we are still burning dirty fuel?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416348', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Shayne</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shayne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Max-1, no.  Who even knows how they&#039;re stored.  Every site does as they please.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/ym_repository/index.shtml&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;They&#039;ve been working on storing it at Yucca Mountain since 1978 and haven&#039;t accomplished that yet.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Max-1, no.  Who even knows how they&#8217;re stored.  Every site does as they please.  <a href="http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/ym_repository/index.shtml" rel="nofollow">They&#8217;ve been working on storing it at Yucca Mountain since 1978 and haven&#8217;t accomplished that yet.</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416338', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Max-1</title>
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		<dc:creator>Max-1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Shayne,
And in my part of the country, they store them &lt;a href=&quot;http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n25-26_v152/ai_20121858&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;spent rods in leaky tanks&lt;/a&gt;...
... But that was ten years ago. Things have improved, &lt;a href=&quot;http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008523323_opin16gregoire.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;YES&lt;/a&gt;?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shayne,<br />
And in my part of the country, they store them <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n25-26_v152/ai_20121858" rel="nofollow">spent rods in leaky tanks</a>&#8230;<br />
&#8230; But that was ten years ago. Things have improved, <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008523323_opin16gregoire.html" rel="nofollow">YES</a>?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416310', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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