We could update the transit system and power it with green energy, but we aren't.

@NerdyPotato yep. Bring back the reliable economic coal fired power plants.

@Baremine that will only get us a decade or two further and isn't environmental friendly either. There has to be a third option.

@NerdyPotato get rid of this climate change BULLSHIT

@Baremine that's why we're trying to switch to greener energy. (That and because coal reserves are almost depleted.)

@NerdyPotato coal supplies are far from depleted. There is enough coal 30 miles from me to last another hundred years according to the mine before the EPA decided the sulphur content was to high. EPA are a bunch of nuts.

@Baremine are you sure? Energy demand is rising so quickly that every 10 years we use as much as in all of human history. For it to last another 100 years, that means that field needs to contain more than 1000 times the amount of coal ever dug up elsewhere. I highly doubt that to be the case regardless of the sulphur content.

@NerdyPotato fact I do know there are Four layers of coal in that mine that have never been touched and the coal was hauled to the power plant on the mine trucks. But leave it to Washington to screw things up.

@Baremine and those 4 layers in that one mine contain more than 1000 times the amount of coal that has been dug up worldwide in the entirety of human history so far? Or did your sources say it could last a 100 years with current demand? Because then it will be depleted in about 15 years if you correct that for the rising demand.

@NerdyPotato I didn't say that that one mine could supply the whole world a hundred years. But it could supply it's area for a hundred years. Don't twist what I said. Our local power company who my son in law works for would be losing money on their wind turbines if it wasn't for government subsidies. This green energy is economic BULLSHIT.

@Baremine ok, not world wide, but the question is the same for your local area: a 100 years with current demand or a 100 years taking into account that within the next 10 years, you'll need as much energy as your local area consumed in human history, and double that in the 10 years after, and double [i]that[/i] in 30 years?