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To: Joe NYC who wrote (388930)	6/5/2008 7:31:49 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574786

How would you address countries that do not meet our current emission standards? I see no reason to improve our coal burning requirements when China's blowing and going. I envision a future with car graveyards of discarded batteries full of heavy metals and toxic chemicals...

To: Joe NYC who wrote (388930)	6/5/2008 9:02:09 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574786

Joe, we already have the technology to turn coal into natural gas, which goes a long way toward cleaner burning of the fuel. The problem with treating CO2 as a pollutant is that it takes coal almost completely out of the picture, or at least makes it prohibitively expensive as we try to sequester the CO2 emissions. Since coal is cheap and abundant here in America, let's use it until we get nuclear, solar, wind, and eventually fusion online. As for China, most of their coal power plants are the old dirty kind, which has been outlawed here in America for decades now. That is having a significant impact on their air quality. Beijing is now 3X as bad as Los Angeles, and I thought LA was pretty bad. Tenchusatsu