Clean Coal Lesson or Peril?

Clean Coal - Lesson or Perils? Thom mixes it up with Carrie Lukas on shutting down the coal industry www.iwf.org

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Comments

[Lisa Wines]

OK. This girl is clueless. People have smaller homes in Europe (where I live) because they don't share America's never-sated desire for huge symbols of wealth, like McMansions and souped-up SUVs. It's like going to Mexico and seeing all the houses painted in bright colors and saying, "Oh you poor things! Look at your ticky-tacky houses! Here's 50 thousand gallons of Navajo White paint to help you out!" Nobody bothered to ask the Mexicans about the paint - which they use on purpose because they LIKE it.

Ms. Lukas is also wrong about European birth rates. France's birth rate is a little more than 2 children per French woman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//Demographics_of_France). French people aren't choosing NOT to have children because they're TOO POOR or it's too expensive in Europe. Other than rent, which is comparable to California apartment rental rates, I can eat like a queen on nothing. My Arizona monthly groceries were $400. Here, I spend, oh... maybe $150. And I am not scrimping.

Few people here own clothes driers. People CHOOSE not to have them because they are a huge electricity waste. They hang their clothes up to dry. They're serious about the environment. They voluntarily recycle and watch power usage. They have an ecological and economic CONSCIOUSNESS that most Americans lack.

I could go on, but I have to stop or I will have written an entirely new article.