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Washington, DC local residents and environmentalists

gathered at a meeting room in a Methodist Church on

Capitol Hill last Thursday to discuss their

dissatisfaction with the Capitol Hill cogeneration plant

(http://www.aoc.gov/projects/cogeneration-addition-capitol-

power-plant).

The plant, which was completely coal fired for almost one hundred years, exclusively heats

the capitol. However, since 2007, according to the Architect of the Capitol (AOC)

(http://www.breitbart.com/tools/contentauthoring/ItemEditor.aspx?Mode=Add), the

plant began to move from burning primarily coal to burning mostly natural gas--but not

entirely. Coal is still burned at the plant, but the rate of its reduction is not fast enough for

local environmentalists and lawmakers.

In March of 2009, anti-coal protesters blocked the gates (http://www.ens-newswire.com

/ens/mar2009/2009-03-02-03.asp)of the nearly century old Capitol Power Plant for

nearly four hours. No one was arrested. By May of that year, then Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D

CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D NV) announced that the plant wouldswitch over (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30561554/ns/us_news-environment

/t/congress-stop-using-coal-power-plant/#.UQaqWI7nsfM) to natural gas as its sole

energy source. The promise was made in large part as an effort from Democrats to limit

carbon emissions in the nations capitol.

However, despite the Democratic leaders agreeing in 2009 that the AOC could still use

coal in three particular circumstances, green advocates claim the the AOC is not doing

enough to completely eradicate coal from the capitol plant.

In an e-mail statement to Breitbart News, the AOC wrote:

In 2009, the Architect of the Capitol worked with Leader Pelosi and Senator Reid to

address the request that the Capitol Power Plant move away from using coal. With

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Congresss support, the Architect of the Capitol has made significant investments

and improvements at the Plant over the past several years. However, the Architect

must maintain the capability to potentially use some coal to ensure that it can

provide uninterrupted service to Congress, and outlined 3 instances when coal would

need to be used (http://www.democraticleader.gov/news/press/pelosidelimiter-

reid-capitol-power-plant-end-burning-coal-only-be-used-emergency-backup):

If there is an emergency and natural gas supplies are interrupted;

Abnormally cold conditions place higher than normal demands on the Plant;

Equipment outages or maintenance on the gas boilers require use of backup fuel.

The Leaders agreed to these terms, and since 2009, the Capitol Power Plant has

worked within these terms, and has relied on natural gas as its primary fuel source.

In addition, the AOC continues to provide information to the Leaders about annual

fuel use at the Plant.

In Fiscal Year 2012, the Plant relied on natural gas for 92% of its energy needs. By

comparison, in 2005, the Plant relied on natural gas 42% of the time.

The AOC has identified the construction of a cogeneration plant as the most

environmentally and economically beneficial way to meet its goal to use natural gas

100% of the time, and Congress has been supportive of this project.

After more than 100 years in operation, significant investment is needed to replace

aging infrastructure and to install new, energy-efficient equipment in the Plant, and

implementing cogeneration will allow the Plant to discontinue the use of its

60-year-old, less energy efficient coal boilers.

Washington DC Councilman Tommy Wells sent a letter to Stephen Ours, Chief of the

Permitting Branch of DC Air and Quality Division, to oppose "any permits that would

allow the Capitol Power Plant to continue, and potentially expand pollution emissions."

Wells references the Pelosi and Reid push to rid the plant of coal four years ago saying, "In

2009, positive steps were taken to reduce coal use at the plant. However, it appears many

of those advances were undermined and coal use is as prominent as ever."

The DC Chapters Sierra Club stated (http://dc.sierraclub.org/news/detail.asp?ID=325)

late last week that recently, the Defense Logistics Agency solicited bids for 20,000 tons of

coal for delivery to the Plant in 2013. This comes to more than 220,000 pounds of coalburned per day during heating season.

The Sierra Club and Washington DC Councilman Tommy Wells claim the emissions from

the portion of the plant will cause significant health hazards to children in the area,

Wells said in his opposition letter to Ours.

Advocates for coal energy (http://cei.org/sites/default/files

/Marlo%20Lewis,%20William%20Yeatman,%20and%20David%20Bier%20-%20All%20Pain%20and%20No%20Gain.pdf)

disagree, saying that governmental entities like the Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA) "exaggerate" coal energy's "health risks," and that the EPA "relies on dubious

co-benefits to make the utility MACT (http://www.epa.state.oh.us/dapc/mact

/mactmain.aspx) rule look reasonable." The MACT standard is, according to the EPA, "a

level of control that was introduced by Title III of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments."

In a letter, the AOC responded to complaints from environmentalists:

While the AOC has reduced coal use at the CPP over the past several years, it cannot

cease using coal until the new cogeneration plant is constructed. As a result, the

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) secures a certain quantity of coal for the AOC should

any of the three circumstances listed above occur.

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LIKE REPLY 1 hour ago

...but they don't want us to f rack either. What is their end game?

MIJFLOW

LIKE REPLY 1 hour ago in reply to mijflow 1 Like

end game = total control of everyone's life

WANNABEGOOD

LIKE REPLY 2 hours ago 2 Likes

The rules are for thee, not for me.

ORLANDORAYS

LIKE REPLY 4 hours ago 1 Like

The faster these crazy people close down the coal plants the faster the people will rise up and stop this stupid

behavior.

GREGGEBHARDT


I thought the place was heated with "hot air" or is it "haute aire". In India they burn cow patties, why can't they

use bull s*(t, there is even an abundance of horse s*(t, that could be used in an emergency.

JMWINPR


And all those Chevy Volts are coal-fired, too...

DUGALDTAYLOR

Environmentalists won't be happy until we're st ripped down naked and sitting inside an igloo wearing fake fur to

GEEKMOM


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keep warm.


Guess who's home state has 10 coal fired electric plants still online? If you guessed Joe Biden then you would

be correct ! In June 2011, the groups Free Speech for People and Appalachian Voices filed a "Request to

Investigate Revocation of Massey Energy Company Corporate Charter" for Delaware Attorney General Beau

Biden to revoke the corporate charter of Massey Energy, citing a pattern of lawlessness on the part of Massey

leading up to the Upper B ig Branch Mine Disaster.Massey as you may have guessed is a coal company. Yes

Beau Biden son of Joe Biden! As of 2013 nothing has been done about it ! Politicians say things to get votes

,but when it comes to action in their own lives don't count on it! Coal is here to stay because it is cheap ! Don't

count on lying politicians to get things done! If you live where coal is used to generate electricity than take steps

in your own homes and businesses to use less energy ! That is the ONLY way you will ever see it's use

reversed ! Don't be naive !

SAILORSAMADAMS


Our politicians firmly believe in 'Do as I say not as I do.'

YUKIKO


20,000 tons? How about shutting some windows and buying some insulation and caulking.

JIMADOO


Please shut down the coal. Please freeze those idiots beyond recognition. Maybe they can share sleeping

bags with the Occupy bunch. Yes, shut down fossil fuels immediately but make sure the goofy left gets the

benefits of a solar powered or wind powered habitat. They seldom bathe, so maybe they can survive the cold.

BLANCOJOE

LIKE REPLY 1 hour ago in reply to blancojoe 1 Like

In these things the EPA is the real enemy. They have become like a whole nother branch of

government. They have power in this nation and shouldn't. They should be only an "advisory" entity -

that should be the end of their power. The Fed is another that needs to go.

BRANDIGO

LIKE REPLY 11 hours ago in reply to blancojoe 6 Likes

Agree, if they freeze like the rest of the former coal users they might hum a different tune, oh wait, their

tongues might freeze over :D

SEBASSH


How about those enviromentalists mind their own effin business and quit trying to stuff their beleifs down our

throats. If I ever encounter one of those SOB's, I'll take my beliefs and stuff it down their throat.

TIGERSGROWL

LIKE REPLY 12 hours ago in reply to tigersgrowl 4 Likes

Stuffing up their arse would be better, that way those whack job cave dwellers can cut down on

methane emissions.

BN2D

LIKE REPLY 9 hours ago in reply to Bn2D 1 Like

Here in Ca. Predators have been "taking" humans more in the last 20 Yrs, than in the last 200

yrs. We no longer hunt them, harass them, many smell like prey animals, grass eaters.

MIKE MATHEW

BBNERD47


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THEN they'll go out and lobby against FRACKING to prohibit the procedure in the USA so as to mandate

IMPORTING ALL the gas instead of using our own. THAT way, they'll insure that we continue to FUND THE

TERRORISTS instead of our own economy.

LIKE REPLY 13 hours ago in reply to bbnerd47 3 Likes

Actually the Obama Administration are stockpiling "ALL" of America's 'Natural Resources' for the

"Chinese" once the Dollar is collapsed. The chinese will colonize the U.S. and strip away 'all' of our

resources after (now completed) the destruction of the U. S. Military and the U.S. populace has been

disarmed. (The massive training exercises, with helicopters, reported in may cities is a prelude to the

forcible disarming of the US.) The Chinese living in 'Special Economic Zones' are military and simply

awaiting their order to attack. Most US citizens who resist will be shot or put in FEMA Camps. Obama

will be elevated to the head of the UN's NWO Government and rule the world, as his 'pay-off' for

destroying The USA!

Join satan, sell your soul for your hearts desire, anti-family conceptive loving, pedophile, homosexual,

sex without accountability, while killing unwanted babies, defectives and old people... and get

someone else to pay for it! Just think... you can do anything you want without consequence! Oh... think

of the unbounded sexual bliss. Yes! Satan Rules!

SPITFIRE1938

LIKE REPLY 13 hours ago in reply to bbnerd47 6 Likes

They will force The Capital to switch to solar.

Won't it be fun to see everyone with tripple layers ofclothes.

PETITEMOUSE

LIKE REPLY 12 hours ago in reply to petitemouse 1 Like

Those solar panels will leak, and they can use buckets to catch their drinking water.

HIKES


Have the environmental weenies obtain a court order to shut the plant down.

Then pull the plug and then the weenies can become intimate with the issues and the problems THEY are

creating. Until this is dome and the CREDIT is given to those who are the problem and do it before the big storm

hits so the people can know them by their work.

While they are freezing their socialist asses off

DAVID5300

LIKE REPLY 1 hour ago in reply to david5300

These people don't have to obey laws or regulations. Our government has a whole gaggle of bullies

they can sic on you if they don't like something you're doing. The EPA, The Federal Reserve, the IRS,

The DOJ. There is no end to their resources

Chicago Mayor bullied Chick Fila because he doesn't like their policies (keep out of Chicago threats)

now he's doing it to the gun industry by ordering banks to stop funding them. It's the Chicago way.

Obama is cut from the same cloth. Bloomberg, Cuomo- so many like them out here. We have a whole

gaggle of leaders who try to rule "the Chicago way" They act more like the Mafia than Statesmen

And we can do nothing but take it till election time :-/

BRANDIGO


i say they do what they want,,,shut the power down in the District of Corruption,,,let them go with out honeyy

boo boo, American idol, and all their shows,,,lights, heat, the essentials,,,shut it down!

AMCHORNETX

Rather than spend money on lobbyists the coal plant should consider shutting down without notice for a week of

premaintenance. Best when it's below freezing and Congres is in session

Libtards need to be taught there are consequences to their idiocy.

Hey, isn't it cold in here? Why don't we have any heat?

NOT-A-MARXIST


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LIKE REPLY 14 hours ago


Seems to me liek coal sure is getting a bad reap all of a sudden!

irAnon.tk

VENKRONK


Turn the heat off until we have a budget that leads towards zero debt.

STAGECOACHDRIVER


I'm pretty sick and tired of the Federal Government being exempt from it's own frigging laws.

So if they choose to ignore the LAW or make criminal exceptions because they are the almighty elitist Feds ,

then so do I.

DDRED


Why this plant should be shut down immediately! Remove the equipment, sell it all to China, then lock the

gates and put a large sign up with a stiff middle index finger sticking up.

When the fools no longer have heat and power, perhaps that will wake them up. If not, then perhaps they will all

freeze to death. Either way its a win-win scenario.

With the communists in power they will continue to use this green nonsense to destroy America.

HISTORYGUY48


One proactive step that greens like Obama and Gore can take is simply to take a no-fossil-fuels pledge. No

cars, no planes, no heating, no air-conditioning, no lights, no television. It is an odd thing, however, that the

best known greens all seem to be conspicuous consumers of fossil fuels, even when it is absurdly over the top,

as with Gore's mansion or with Obama's flight to Las Vegas.

ABSINTHE


I would rather die on a burned out cinder in space than live in the world envisioned by the environmentalists.GODSMOTIVE


That picture is wierd...who stands with signs that can be read from behind them...posers...thats who. the

person is posing for a picture for the loony left.

AMERICANFAITH

LIKE REPLY 14 hours ago in reply to AmericanFaith

How do you know they're not printed on both sides?

BILL_BROWN

LIKE REPLY 12 hours ago in reply to bill_brown

Look how he/she is holding them...no one holds signs like that...look at the thumbs...like I said

"posers"

AMERICANFAITH

let's see here. they don't like coal .. they do like natural gas.. they don't like fracking to get the gas .. they don't

like pipelines to get the gas..they do like zero emission cars..oops where do they think the electricity will come

from..they do like wind and solar..oops they are defaulting on government loans are are bankrupt..they do like al

'green' gore who uses a phenomenal amount of non green energy to heat his mansion.. they don't like rich

people who sell their cable station to the arabs..oops that's al gore..

they want to tax the rich more..oops most of the greeners are the rich..

RHUTRHO


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i don't see a warm future in d.c.

the children of d.c. would be much safer if the city didn't have so many criminals not counting the 545 in

congress


One more example of one set of rules for Obama and his friends and another for everbody else. Enough

already. Aren't we sick of this double standard yet?

FASTGIRL

LIKE REPLY 13 hours ago in reply to Fastgirl

Apparently the third world is in D.C.

Elites in warm Capital; poor on the streets.

PETITEMOUSE


And the irony that natural gas production is only up because of the evil fracking process completely escapes

them.

WALTC


Why don't the pos tree huggers pay for the change if it upsets them so much. No, they only want others to pay

for their crap

MMILESLL


And in other news: fish swim, birds fly, sun rises and sets. Details at 11:00!

JOE_E_IN_THE_IE


Just more of the same from President Do-As-I-Say-Not-As-I-Do...

IAMBICPENTAMASTER

LIKE REPLY 16 hours ago in reply to IambicPentaMaster 6 Likes

D.C. going dark would be fine with me.

COMMONSENSE033


How silly for the environmental lobby to be upset. Don't they know that laws are only for those outside DC? Of

course those promises made by Democrats are only well meaning intentions. These knuckleheads actually

believe they can ban coal fired power plants out of existence and they can't even get rid of the one they are in

charge of. How's that for impotence?

MFRAZEE29

LIKE REPLY 13 hours ago in reply to mfrazee29 1 Like

Well, Obama did say it is easier to

lead from the outside.

I guess he is not leading from

behind on this one.

PETITEMOUSE


You put the pic of the half-wit with the climate justice sign on here just to get a rise out of us, I bet. Well it

worked. Arrrgh!

CURVED SPACE


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Why don't they put a couple of those big a** windmills on either side of the capital and how about putting some

solar panels on the dome.

Same thing at the white house.

The greenies would love that, don't you think?

CARPENTER45


OK, here we go:

You shouldn't be allowed to own "assault weapons" for self defense............Washington D.C. orders 7000 of

them for personal defense.

You shouldn't be allowed to use coal for energy...............Washington D.C. can use coal as much as it wants as

long as it conforms to self-defined parameters.

Any questions? Anyone see a pattern developing here?

IDIDBUILDTHAT


Great example of do as I say not as I do.

ELLIEENLIGHTENED


Screw these wackos. My heating bill is too high now. Between taxes and these nutjobs I might as well just quit

my job and go on welfare like the rest of the Barry supporters.

CASEY T


Who is John Galt?

STAINLESSCLE


A young girl asks her father, "Why is it so cold in the house?"

"We don't have any coal", he says.

"But why is there no coal?", she wants to know.

"Because I lost my job", he replies.

Still unsatisfied, she asks one more time"And why did you lose your job?"

To which he answers, "Because there is too much coal".

PREMIER_BITTYKOK


Discontinue the coal now, let the left wing useless politicans FREEZE in the capitol. These Coal dopes and jerks

will be the first ones to complain about fracking in order secure natural gas to warm their butts. These protestors

should in fact have all their oil and gas shut and they should live in their yards

COMPDUCK

LIKE REPLY 13 hours ago in reply to compduck 2 Likes

Yes, I like that.

I would love to say to them

"You first!"

PETITEMOUSE


These anti-coal morons are insane. But they're all in the tank with Obozo and his country destroying minions, so

what do you expect.

GRINGO1942

Let 'em freeze in the dark if that's what they want.

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LIKE REPLY 18 hours ago in reply to gringo1942 8 Likes


Wow, who knew? I am surprised the blowhards in the House and Senate don't put out enough hot air to heat

the Capitol without the help of the cogeneration plant!

BILLINDALLAS


How about banning private jets from D.C. It would probably reduce carbon more.

GIATNY


Could someone tell me what to think of 'climate justice'? Do words have any meaning at all to these libtards?

JESSE TOLER


Shut off power and energy of all kinds to enviro wackos, particularly in cold climates. Don't allow them to burn

anything except their bras and panties to stay warm. Let's see how long they can go being cold, not having their

lattes, and without their iPods.

HWOBSTJ


If the Feds are going to shut down the coal plants, yet do nothing about replacing them with another source of

energy at the same time, then it's time to shut down the plant that services DC. Give them cold offices. Give

them cold homes. I'll bet it won't be long before Obama's Gestapo EPA comes to relaize what they have done.

KIMDI01


This problem is all Bush's fault for not reigning in the EPA when he was in office. he was so consumed with Iraq

that no attention was paid to the out of control EPA, NEPA and the environmental issues. Now were stuck with

out of control extremist environmental crazies in EPA and other elements of the federal gov and system with

consequences for the public that are nothing short of disastrous. These people should be arrested as

environmental terrorists.

When your home goes cold and dark, you will know who to blame...

Remember this in 2014 and vote NO democrats anywhere.

GRIZZLD


Turn it off. Let the SOBs freeze in the winter and swelter in the summer.

STEVEPVB


Please tell them to go save a whale. I am so tired of hearing from those morphs. Their daddies or mommies

must have been hoarders.

MASTEROFNONE


WHAT are you belly aching about??? YOU PUT THESE PEOPLE BACK IN OFFICE!!!! YOU RE-ELECTED

THEM, Now you are getting the "Do as they SAY not as they do" They are the elitists that do not give a hoot

for you. Look at Sandy hook! Did the feds help them.

WHEN are you going to get the picture???????????????

FRAMIS

A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF AMERICANS ARE PAINFULLY STUPID, LAZY AND CARELESS SO

NATURALLY THERE WOULD BE AN ELEMENT THAT WANTED TO TAKE CONTOL OF THESE

MALFUNCTIONS AND ENSLAVE THEM. THE POOR DUMB FOOLS EVEN CHEER THEM ON

YOADRIAN BALBOA


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LIKE REPLY 18 hours ago in reply to framis 2 Likes

WHILE THEY ARE LINING THEM UP FOR COMPLETE SUBMISSION. IT'S QUITE ASTOUNDING

HOW IGNORANT THESE PEOPLE WHO VOTE ARE. THE ENTIRE ELECTORAL PROCESS IS

CORRUPT, THERE'S NO WAY TO VOTE ANY CHANGE AT THIS POINT. EVERYTHING HAS BEEN

COMPROMISED AND THE QUESTION IS HOW MUCH LONGER CAN THEY KEEP THE CON ON

THE STUPID, LAZY IGNORANT PEOPLE BEFORE THEY DISCOVER THAT THEY ARE ON THE

MENU AND SERVED THEMSELVES UP TO BE SLAVES TO THESE SELF DESCRIBED ELITES.

PATHETIC!

LIKE REPLY 19 hours ago in reply to framis 2 Likes

Don't look at me, I vote small government every single time.

Romney would have banned guns, had a runaway debt and socialized medicine also, after all that was

his track record as governor.

WYRDLESS

LIKE REPLY 18 hours ago in reply to Wyrdless

What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things

I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you

even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in

this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and

may God have mercy on your soul.

ELLIEENLIGHTENED

LIKE 12 hours ago in reply to EllieEnlightened

The problem with Wryd is they walk among us, scary!

HIKES


"What's good for thee, is not for me says Obama". They are switching to Nat. Gas but they are also kicking the

heck out of gas drilling. His EPA is shutting down coal plants and mines even though Dandy Lions place more

particulate matter into the air than coal. Ever see your car dusted in the spring with a light yellow film of pollen

from trees? Why isn't the EPA and BO going after trees and brush?

Also, the Sun burns trillions of tons of Hydrogen. Certainly the Sun is a huge energy hog so why aren't they

trying to regulate that?

SIXGUNWEST

LIKE REPLY 14 hours ago in reply to SIXGUNWEST

Please don't give them any ideas.

They come up with enough fake problems all on their own.

I can see it now, "we need a sun tax, to protect the children"

DEARMOM


So we can't:

* use coal.

* use nuclear.

* use shale.* use oil especially the oil drilled in our own country.

* use fraking.

* use natural gas.

* use windmills (they kill birds and are ugly)

* use solar panels (they absorb heat and hurt desert wildlife and take up space)

* burn dung in huts.

* burn wood.

* use dams (4 dams on an oregon river were all shutdown)

Yup, progressivism - a ball and chain.

So where's the actual "progress" in progressivism? Just curious. How is turning the human race into cave men

"progress"? Oh wait we can't live in caves cause that would hurt bats.

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LIKE REPLY 19 hours ago in reply to cb75075 7 Likes

You are supposed to be heating your home with good intentions and fairy dust

WYRDLESS


Fairy dust, have you dusted Mommy's house.

HIKES


....and if ya don't happen to live in San Francisco?

BARNEY_J_RUBBLE

LIKE 18 hours ago in reply to barney_j_rubble 1 Like

It ain't dust those San Francisco fairies are sprinklin'

JNAVRATIL


This is so devious, so staged by hypocritical spin by the Administration. Creating all this ecology caring, and yet

he flies to Nevada with Air Force 1 burning fuel for 9 hours to make a two hour political photo op. It's not only

costing 1.6 million $$$'s about 183,000 an hour. No accountability of pollution, of the elitist , who doesn't care

what he does, only put suffering on the backs of all those folks , who have to pay higher electric bills , which will

be passed on to everyone for Obama's agenda to stop using coal. Not to mention all the jobs lost.

The double talk continues, but yet the Capital gets it's heat from Coal. What a joke.

No one can lead the nation who has double standards.

AMERICANMAN2012

LIKE REPLY 19 hours ago in reply to Americanman2012

..... Or cash for c lunkers, where the old cars were trashed without being recycled.

WYRDLESS

LIKE REPLY 19 hours ago in reply to Americanman2012 5 Likes

That's progressivism - the "somebody else" ideology. The rules apply to "somebody else".

Remember the Volt? All the cries about we need electric cars... people should rive electrics. But where

were all the progs lined up to buy the thing? No where. Because SOMEBODY ELSE is supposed to

buy it.

CB75075

LIKE REPLY 17 hours ago in reply to cb75075 1 Like

That's why they need to write these things into law, because nobody in their right mind would

follow them otherwise. They need to threaten you by calling you a criminal if you don't.

LIBERTARDISM


Lets see if the moonbats protest at pelosi and rieds offices. They should also heckle them every-time they see

them. UNLESS they are hypocrites and will not protest a fellow progressive.

STEVEMA


Perhaps we should institute a commission to review all dictionaries, encyclopedias, google, wikipedia search

engines, and other reference/information sources to ensure that the word COAL, and perhaps OIL removed and

eradicated.

As an alternative if any conditions exist the exceed the capacity of the plant just shut it down until spring returns

or the excessive heat subsides.

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