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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.153.24] on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 01:05:13 :
In Reply to: Re: Coal heat posted by Tom @ Snake River [173.198.176.25] on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 00:09:08 :
$100 a ton is way higher than at the mines, but way cheaper than I could ever get it here. I can burn any cruddy old coal in my coal stove. The stuff I found recently in a bin in the upstairs of what used to be an apartment building ranges from in size from about 8" to dust and everything in between. I've had some that was the size of cordwood. It doesn't have to go through a stoker so it doesn't matter.
As for the tar sands, they've been bringing pre-fabricated refineries through here continually for about 4 months now. The city is getting $10K/mo to lease an unused parking lot next to the freeway and they're renting 20 rooms in the local motel continually for the crews. The whole "megaloads" operation runs about $1 million a day from what I hear and will go on at least through the summer. So, that's at least some money into our economy. Of course in Moscow they're protesting them, but not very seriously any more.
It's a shame about canceling that pipeline project, though. Even if I thought the oil companies are a bunch of greedy sobs, that pipeline would have put a lot of money into the pockets of the guys building it, and would have given our country more oil. I'm not a big fan of the way they mine the tar sand up in Canada, tearing the hell out of everything to get it, but that's not my fight. Obama waffled on canceling the pipeline. He didn't really say he'd cancel it. He just said that he wouldn't go for the hurried-up approval the Republicans wanted and would wait until after the election to announce his decision. I'd rather have people working on it now, but I have a hunch it'll get approved after the election.