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eppur_se_muova

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2. The highest price: deaths of coal miners.

Reply to Zalatix (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2011, 01:11 AM

Dec 2011

http://frankwarner.typepad.com/free_frank_warner/2006/01/us_coal_mining_.html

not to mention deaths due to overloaded coal trucks:

From 2000 to 2004, there were more than seven hundred accidents involving coal trucks in Kentucky alone; fifty-three people died, and more than five hundred were injured.

http://www.plunderingappalachia.org/theissue.htm

ETA: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=56976&mesg_id=57059

(notice the trucks in the video driving over bridges w/10-12 ton limits)

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The new EPA regulations and this persistent "cheap energy" meme... [View all] Zalatix Dec 2011 OP

Actually, energy is ridiculously cheap Gore1FL Dec 2011 #1

Wait, do batteries and solar power panels generate mercury? Zalatix Dec 2011 #3

yes Gore1FL Dec 2011 #4

The highest price: deaths of coal miners. eppur_se_muova Dec 2011 #2