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I find it offensive when folks on HN completely get the facts wrong and disparage people for no good reason. The utility industry has cut electricity generatio

• antattack 5y ago
  That was the easy half. Second half will be much harder to accomplish.
  • throwaway0a5e 5y ago
    With cheap solar and cheap gas I don't see how it's going to be any harder than having the self control to not shoot ourselves in the foot before the coal infrastructure ages out.
• fweespeech 5y ago
  > The utility industry has cut electricity generation from coal by 50% in about 15 years. Manchin is right. The problem is, by common projections such as: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/abandoning-60-percent-of-global-oil-and-gas-might-limit-warming-to-1-5-c/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/abandoning-60-per... We need to cut it by another 60% by the end of the year. That is not happening without government intervention. You have to understand if you aren't 70+, this is going to impact you much worse the longer we wait to make changes.
• Dylan16807 5y ago
  The first half of his sentence is right. The full sentence and implications are not right.
• throwaway894345 5y ago
  1. Manchin is a toad whose personal wealth is invested in the fossil fuel industry nevermind whatever the industry pays him to advocate for it. Manchin is the worst kind of moderate democrat, and he absolutely deserves to be disparaged. 2. What matters is the rate at which we're shedding emissions, not the rate at which we're cutting coal. Moving from coal to natural gas represents a reduction in emissions, but it's not enough to meet our emissions targets, hence this bill.