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[quote user="Norman Saxon"][quote user="GP40-2"]  You also completely ignored the fact that fluid bed combustion of coal INCREASES the CO2 output (the politicians will love you for that when they pass carbon taxes), mercury, and PAH's. [/quote]The spector of CO2 taxation is hardly a drawback to the clear economic favorability of burning coal externally rather than flash burning diesel.  Even with those costs passed on to the shipper, coal wins by a landslide.  Options abound.......  <a href="http://www.examiner.com/a-1374241~Coal_fired_Colo__tourist_train_plants_trees_to_offset_carbon.html">http://www.examiner.com/a-1374241~Coal_fired_Colo__tourist_train_plants_trees_to_offset_carbon.html</a>Only a hard cap on CO2 emissions could stymie the use of coal when stacked up against toxic baby killing diesel fuel.  And what kind of Earth-hating monster would be willing to hard cap CO2 if the alternative is more of those diesel toxins?  Like I said before, if it was up to me I'd take the increased CO2 over increased diesel toxins any day.  As would most reasoned people. [/quote]See Durning and Bauman, Tax Shift, published by a north coast environmental group about ten yearsago. The idea is to tax "bads" such as pollution, congestion, use of natural resources, insteadof "goods" such as profits and payrolls. It seems to me this is a pretty good way to clear up a lot of economic and envirnomental pollution without a lot of stifling regulation.See the 1954 Internal Revenue Code, section 611, et. seq. on oil getting a 27% depletion allowance but coal 10%.
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