Yeah coal... burning coal is what put all the mercury in the oceans. Now that Obama is 8 years into his program to stop that they find that they can burn it cleaner. Fu^k 'em, if they didn't clean it up earlier then their industry needs to die. All the industries that are incapable of being conscientious need to die.
Solar is getting better and better all the time. It's the obvious answer. There is enough sun power hitting earth to fuel anything imaginable. Making all the other energy sources expensive is a good way to promote it. Tax Oil some more folks, that shit's gotta go eventually. We can make the roads into solar generators if we want, buildings that provide all their own power from solar are already here. The Mojave Deserts' 25,000 square miles can generate enough electricity to power the whole continent and a lot more... I wouldn't build a house unless it was entirely run from solar panels and I've worked out how to do that in it's entirety... The US is a very stupid place, they build houses without shade and burn stuff to cool them... stupid doesn't begin to describe it. They put solar panels on roofs, convert that dc source to 115 ac to accommodate all the stuff in the house that is built to 19th century needs, the stuff in the house converts it back to DC for internal use... make some shit that runs from solar panels directly morons! Forget the AC shit, it's entirely unnecessary... I can't stand it folks, if inefficiency was brains we'd be geniuses...