Coal Going Away, Not So Grammar
According to this article: The U.S. is on track this year to “easily exceed” a previous annual record of 14.7 gigawatts in coal retirements, dropping 15.4 gigawatts of capacity, according to a recent report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
Well that’s cool, but what about that split infinitive? To easily exceed???
Up until I started to work for American Diversified Energy, writing the marketing sections of business plans, I thought my mother and I were the last two grammar Nazis on the planet. Wrong! These people have a style guide that makes War and Peace seem like a short story.
Craig,
As Germany has discovered, the death of Coal is greatly exaggerated and relies upon the continuation of very low natural gas prices.
The era of cheap natural gas is drawing to a close as US exports increase and demand from Asia and Europe prove insatiable. Wind and Solar have proved inadequate and economically dubious without massive subsidies or market rigging.
The era of ‘cheap’ coal is also over as export markets prove lucrative, although clean(er) coal technology is rapidly being developed to lower the price of coal-fired electricity generation.
It’s only a matter of time before the US will join the reat of the world in reverting to clean(er) coal technology as an economic necessity.
Craig,
In other energy news, Oil company investors have proved the Attorney-General of New York claim’s about “deceiving” investors is absurd and the law suit ill-conceived.
[ https://eidclimate.org/despite-media-hype-energy-investors-ignore-new-york-climate-lawsuit/%5D
Investment in US coal is returning, with some US-based coal companies reporting dramatic earnings growth. One company reported 37% growth last quarter while paying shareholders a 10.61% dividend creating a price-to-earnings ratio of 6.85!
[https://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/what-you-dont-know-about-coal/6571 ]
Throughout the US, voters rejected climate-related ballot measures. More significantly (with few exceptions), candidates with strong climate change activist credentials were overwhelmingly defeated.
The mid-terms elections results proved an interesting result for women voters who elected more female legislators, but also a sizable swing of women voters to both the GOP, and the President. The rise of support among female voters, including Black, Hispanic and Asian for the President, was unexpected, while the percentage of white female voters remaining much stronger than the polls indicated.
Although downplayed by the liberal media, the persecution of Justice Kavanaugh, ugly mobs attacking Sarah Huckabee Saunders and her family in a restaurant, violent leftist mobs attacking the homes and families of conservative journalists, celebrities advocating the violent abduction of the President’s youngest son for torture by pedophiles and the generally hysterical level of leftist obsessive abuse, has started to produce a counter-reaction.
The ” Blue Wave”, was turned into a rather small ripple as the American people put all politicians on notice to improve their behaviour, or face the consequences in 2020.
If the Democrats spend the next two years in a relentless vindictive pursuit of the President the small electoral gain of mid-terms will be swept away in a GOP landslide. I believe the American voters sent a message to Washington, demanding a more productive, less pointlessly divisive political process.The message was sent to both parties.
In other words, the US people are growing weary of high political and social drama and want the Administration to get back to the business of governing and legislature to hold constructive, productive debating producing practical legislation instead of concentrating on personality politics.
As the Mueller inquiry fizzles out, the unlawful conduct of FBI officers and US intelligence agencies attempting to manipulate Carter Page, and Papadopoulos into falsely providing substance to support misusing the investigative powers of the Federal Government of Russian interference in a US Presidential Election, to launch an attack on a newly elected President, will gather momentum.
If Robert Mueller is truly honest, his report must investigate these matters, even if they involve members of his own team, and expose such activity.
The next two years could be very productive and positive for America, or just more contentious in-fighting and chaos. Armed with some power to curb excesses, the Democrat majority in the lower house could become a responsible catalyst for stability and bipartisan progress.
The American people won’t thank the Democrat’s if they prove a to just be a disruptive, vindictive, distraction, reveling in sensationalist political rhetoric to the detriment of the national good.