Barry kills more jobs
This time it’s the loss of an estimated 3,900 direct and indirect jobs for construction of a new coal-fired electric power plant in Corpus Christi. Barry’s EPA doesn’t like coal, remember, so they killed the permit for the project, despite the fact that most 42 percent of American electricity is created by burning coal.
I suppose the EPA would rather folks in Corpus cut back on their use of electricity or else hook up to such intermittent (and very expensive) power sources as wind generators and inefficient solar cells. More likely, though, the bureaucrats simply don’t care. D.C. is enjoying an economic boom on our taxes, though it’s mainly the pols and the rest of the 1 percent who are rolling in the dough.
UPDATE: This is only the latest Texas power plant to be closed by King Putz’s EPA. Five others also are on the block. One in Pasadena, one in Lone Star, two in Mount Pleasant and one in Pittsburg.
Posted: January 28th, 2013 under Blogosphere, Obamalot, Science/Engineering, Texana, The Economy.
Tags: coal-fired power plant nixed, EPA kills Texas jobs
Comments
Comment from SnoopyTheGoon
Time January 30, 2013 at 6:32 AM
Wind generators and inefficient solar cells, with all due respect, will take uncounted years to keep up with the demand, and I doubt they ever will get there.
In effect, the current administration is acting out a dream. For many people that dream will translate in sharply rising prices on juice and supply problems as well.
Comment from Darkwater
Time January 30, 2013 at 8:04 PM
And those alternative electric cars? What if only 10% of the households had one & plugged them in?
http://plbirnamwood.blogspot.com/2011/09/canada-green-cars-not-likely-success.html
Comment from Dick Stanley
Time January 30, 2013 at 9:13 PM
In effect, Barry is killing the economy he claims to care so much about. For someone whose supporters claim is a genius, he is really stupid.
But progressives never think ahead, to the extent they can think. For them it’s all about their feelings. Not anyone else’s lives.
Comment from Darkwater
Time January 29, 2013 at 7:42 PM
Thanks for the update. I’m originally from Corpus.
But then, we always knew that Obama was going to kill the energy industry in favor of unproven technology, bet the farm on a pig in a poke. “The cost of coal-fired energy will necessarily skyrocket.”