I think we have to use all of our energy resources to develop a plan long term.

we are allowing the Chinese to grow their economy while retarding our economy by not using our clean coal technology.

It also will cause our electric rates to go up by 10 to 20 percent in most of the country.

That retirement of coal power plants by 2016, we are going to be retiring 27 gigawatts.

So this is of great concern in my area because we have railroads, coal and utility companies.

Isn't that correct?

Isn't that true?

I think you also reported that just the mercury utility MACT rules would cost about $21 billion a year and 183,000 jobs a year.

A lot of what we have been doing has been ignoring coal and its potential as a major resource in this country.

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