$3.1B annual cost estimated for fossil fuel plants DOE won't allow to retire

Re:$3.1B annual cost estimated for fossil fuel plants DOE wo... by blitzar on Sunday August 17, 2025 @03:47AM (#44929730)

Fraud, waste and abuse to own the libs.

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Re:$3.1B annual cost estimated for fossil fuel plants DOE wo... by spwa4 on Sunday August 17, 2025 @06:51AM (#44930638)

Let's be a little bit generous here. It is true that entire communities, and a lot of them, depend on the coal mining industry. It is misguided to keep coal energy generation operational, but it's not "waste and abuse to own the libs".

We should come up with a better solution, including, of course, for those communities.

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Re:$3.1B annual cost estimated for fossil fuel plants DOE wo... by _kulang on Sunday August 17, 2025 @08:03AM (#44931013)

For a group that is so against social welfare…

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Re:$3.1B annual cost estimated for fossil fuel plants DOE wo... by blitzar on Sunday August 17, 2025 @07:12AM (#44930767)

Its extremely generous to assume that anyone thought about the 42,600 employed by the coal mining industry when it came to this policy.

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Re:$3.1B annual cost estimated for fossil fuel plants DOE wo... by scotty79 on Sunday August 17, 2025 @06:54AM (#44930661)

> a lot of them, depend on the coal mining industry

Which means they depend on government subsidies that keep coal mining afloat. Which means they could be better served if they just received personal subsidies in form of basic income and be free to do literally anything else.

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