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Botany

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6. The utility companies have spent billions of $s switching from coal to natural gas and ...

Reply to SWBTATTReg (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 18, 2018, 12:51 PM

Oct 2018

... they are not going back because:

Gas is cheaper
Gas is cleaner
Gas is much easier to use

And the miners, their families, Trump, and politicians from both sides all know this too but
to keep people fired up they have to keep repeating the lies.

BTW natural gas is also a producer of greenhouse gases and we need to get off that
crap ASAP and develop more green and renewable energy sources too.

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