Bloomberg calls for closing all coal-fired
power plants to combat climate change
Fox News,
by
Paul Steinhauser
&
Kelly Phares
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
12/13/2019 3:36:31 PM
Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg is calling for a 50 percent reduction in carbon emissions over the next 10 years to battle climate change. To achieve that goal, the former New York City mayor and multi-billionaire business and media mogul on Friday unveiled a plan that would shutter all 251 remaining coal plants across the country by 2030 and replace them all with clean energy. He would also phase out gas-fired power plants. At a speech in Alexandria, Va., Bloomberg warned that "we have to start working as hard as we can building a 100 percent clean energy economy because
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 12/13/2019 3:42:24 PM (No. 261264)
If the Democrats get into power it is going to be rough. No power, no meat, no cars, no jobs, no savings--and we will get the bill for other people's education, healthcare, food and housing. The Democrat plan for our future is extreme austerity, and we will not be allowed to complain about it either, as the final say will be with the socialist elite.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 12/13/2019 3:42:51 PM (No. 261265)
The climate change scam needs to be ignored. Choices of fuels for our normal power plants needs to be based on what is most cost effective. Currently, many power plants find that natural gas is available cheaper than coal. But coal is NOT harmful, if burned in a properly designed power plant with scrubbers and systems to capture the ash.
Bloomberg is a blooming idiot.
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Alrighty then..... I call for the closing of Shorty's mouth..... which will combat useless gas going into the atmosphere.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Northcross 12/13/2019 3:44:46 PM (No. 261269)
Glad that the "moderate" Bloomberg entered the race. No sodas. No electricity. No trans fats. See if he can sell that idea to China and India. The US is not the problem.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
IowaDad 12/13/2019 3:46:24 PM (No. 261273)
Seems like pandering to the willfully ignorant!
Now, if he advocates opening 70 new nuclear power stations, I might pay attention.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Plex 12/13/2019 3:46:30 PM (No. 261275)
According to solar scientists by 2030 we will be entering an ice age.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 12/13/2019 3:47:02 PM (No. 261276)
The electricity and gas in New York City and NY State comes from Kansas. Yes, Kansas. Cut them off and see how long they last.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Murcielago 12/13/2019 3:47:38 PM (No. 261278)
India, China ,Russia, those are by far the major polluters.Keep on pretending that lecturing this ciuntry will fix the World, idiots.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 12/13/2019 3:50:37 PM (No. 261281)
when you are worth a billion$ you don't really care what your electricity bill is or how much you pay at the gas pump. Besides, you probably have it paid for by some non-profit you have set up to shelter your money
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Seeing that sign in the pic. all I can hear is Hellary saying We are going to put a lot of coal mines out of business. IMHO not a good campaign strategy.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Wendybird 12/13/2019 3:58:41 PM (No. 261291)
If life were fair, which it isn’t, people like Bloomberg would be denied transportation requiring metal structures or components, or energy other than that provided by sunlight, wind power, or flatus from their own butts.
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He waves the rainbow flag, wants to take away reliable energy, and wants to ban guns. He is really onto a winning strategy, isn't he?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 12/13/2019 4:15:42 PM (No. 261312)
All coal-fired power plants will be replaced by extremely large containers of Dr Pepper.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
droopydog 12/13/2019 4:15:59 PM (No. 261313)
#12 Don't forget the big-gulps.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Aud 12/13/2019 4:22:29 PM (No. 261322)
To support #7, in today’s news I read that the Elm Creek natural gas liquids pipeline that runs from the Bakken fracking fields in Montana and North Dakota to a processing center in Bushton, Kansas is now complete and will reduce wasteful flaring of natural gas from wells and can carry 240,000 gallons a day of “Y-Grade natural gas liquids” which carries ethane and propane gases. Eventually that figure can be 400,000 gallons of liquids a day.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
franq 12/13/2019 4:30:13 PM (No. 261331)
Release the Kraken.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 12/13/2019 4:33:53 PM (No. 261334)
How about closing all above ground and undersea erupting volcanoes since they emit far more carbon dioxide, methane and other gases than every coal fired electricity generating plant on earth. Stop volcanoes now!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
drive 12/13/2019 4:41:08 PM (No. 261340)
Ahem, There's an ice age coming, dummy
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
tsquare 12/13/2019 4:47:20 PM (No. 261348)
100% clean? What universe does he live in?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
chumley 12/13/2019 4:47:44 PM (No. 261350)
If you REALLY want to combat climate change, How about bull dozing NYC into the ocean. Imagine the benefits!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 12/13/2019 4:50:42 PM (No. 261352)
#2 is correct, but don't think the Democrats, not just Bloomberg, wants to shut down coal, but as he said, natural gas fired plants too.
Why NatGas, too close to oil, and fracking.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bighambone 12/13/2019 4:50:58 PM (No. 261353)
That proposal is sure not going to get little Michael very many votes outside of the socialist paradises of New York and California.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 12/13/2019 5:11:53 PM (No. 261372)
Bloomberg needs to tell China and India FIRST . Good luck to you, man. and to reply #2, he ain't blooming, he has been the way he is for a long time.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Kafka2 12/13/2019 5:14:41 PM (No. 261377)
The same people that want to eliminate coal power plants have also been trying to eliminate hydro-electric power plants by eliminating dams. Hydro-electric is clean and available 24/7, so why the push to eliminate dams. The reason given is to "restore rivers to historic conditions." It costs a lot of money to remove a dam. and it costs a lot of money to replace a hydro-electric power plant with something else. If that something else is wind or solar, it is not available 24/7. If you want clean and available, it makes sense to build hydro-electric power plant -- not remove them!
As for lowering CO2 emissions, that is what plants need to grow. The environmentalist will send us backwards and bankrupt us at the same time.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 12/13/2019 5:23:08 PM (No. 261386)
I always wonder how people who have done so well in life, and in Bloomberg's case, exceedingly well, appear to be so dumb outside of the main focus that underpinned their success.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 12/13/2019 5:34:46 PM (No. 261399)
Coal accounts for over 20% of US power generation. Cut that in half and watch energy prices skyrocket effecting EVERYONE that pays utilities. Watch the economy plunge as people lose their jobs, and close their pocket books because energy prices have increased.
Who said Bloomberg is a moderate? He's not. He's much like Obama. As a matter of fact, Obama seemed to model his energy policies after Bloomberg. Obama and Bloomberg have been saying the exact same thing regarding coal.
Want to create more energy plants? By all means go ahead. When coal is used for say, less than 5%, of America's energy, we can look into getting off it. Mainly, make sure to have jobs for all the displaced workers associated with the coal industry. Btw, really doubt there is such a thing as clean energy.
Until then, GO AWAY.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/13/2019 5:35:13 PM (No. 261402)
What will he do about China and India and other 3rd World countries where coal is the cooking fuel and fuel for just about everything else...
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/13/2019 5:42:23 PM (No. 261411)
There go the Kentucky, Pennsylvania and West Virginia votes. I don't care how much money Bloomers made or inherited, anybody who proposes a radical change like this that is 100% guaranteed to destroy the economy is either a hopeless idiot or attempting to gain the votes of all the hopeless idiots calling for this same change. The only difference between this loon and AOC is the size of his bank account. She and Greta Thunberg can almost be forgiven for spouting this nonsense due to their ages but this mental midget should know better.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 12/13/2019 6:03:51 PM (No. 261432)
Re #28. Also Ohio and Colorado.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
coyote 12/13/2019 6:16:44 PM (No. 261439)
Two words: rolling blackouts.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 12/13/2019 6:19:23 PM (No. 261443)
How is that different from all other RATS? Why would a Democrat voter vote for him if he the same as the others?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
anonymous 12/13/2019 6:29:16 PM (No. 261449)
Perhaps Mr Bloomberg can lead by example. How many times has he flown in jets around the world? They produce lots of carbon. If he truly believes in the evils of carbon emissions, he should revert to the horse and carriage. Or are horses and carriages only for the little people?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/13/2019 6:40:30 PM (No. 261458)
The little old guy appears to be suffering from osteoporosis, stooped over the way he is, and it will get progressively worse.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
coldoc 12/13/2019 7:05:21 PM (No. 261475)
There go all the tesla's.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/13/2019 7:48:48 PM (No. 261519)
Wow. Talk about stupid! I guess he forgot what happened to Illary after she talked about shutting down the coal industry.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
lisa belanger 12/13/2019 7:54:07 PM (No. 261525)
he forgot the salt to be removed
on restaurant tables....i guess its for nxt time
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/13/2019 9:12:48 PM (No. 261564)
Good idea, dumb donkey, as soon as your private jet flies on solar panels.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 12/14/2019 6:24:49 AM (No. 261749)
You don't have to close them #17. Just tax them.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Goose 12/14/2019 7:42:42 AM (No. 261810)
For starters, close down all the coal-fired plants in Bloomberg's home state. Then see how that goes.
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What world is he living in? Our area gets 50% of energy from coal. Maybe we'll have to get by without electricity 2 weeks in every month.