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  1. Affordable coal will raise China’s living standards & quality of life. In America, the gov't tries to limit coal and quality of life.
  2. "China will need to add coal-fired power almost equivalent to the entire U.S. electrical grid" by 2030 http://qorv.is/flb
  3. By 2030, China's cities are expected to double, accounting for 20% of global energy consumption. http://qorv.is/flb
  4. Those people need $50 coal power bills; they don’t need $400 windmill power bills and they don’t need to pay taxes to subsidize windmills
  5. Bottom Line-There is enough surface mine coal produced in central App. to fuel 80 million people’s homes.
  6. There are a lot of things out there that destroy American jobs and a few that stimulate them.
  7. Every time we consider a bill we should ask what’s the environmental, economic, security and jobs impact- be a competitionist.
  8. A friend asked me why I say CCS isn't practical. Answer: it isn't.
  9. The EPA doesn't reduce pollution, it reduces American jobs.
  10. You can’t put extreme regulation, employment standards, litigation on US workers and expect them to compete with unregulated foreign workers
  11. I’m a competitionist. You have to let the American worker go on the playing field with a chance to win.
  12. Environmentalism should be no different than business. It should be a cost-benefit ratio determination.
  13. You shouldn’t think of yourself as an environmentalist if you want to stop American coal production because you’re a world polluter
  14. People think regulation means green. Regulation doesn’t mean green if all you’re doing is transferring 6x the pollution outside the US.
  15. Think global - 53% of the mercury omissions in the world come from Asia, only 1% from the US. Why are we spending $$$ to reduce 1% not 53%?
  16. At the end of the day productivity / population = average quality of life. Coal produces energy to help people live a prosperous life.
  17. Coal is our greatest hope for a strong economy and homeland security; we should cherish coal as opposed to vilify it.
  18. The US has about 250 billion tons of coal. That’s more energy in coal in the United States than the entire Middle East has in oil.
  19. You can submit a question in advance or attend the discussion
  20. I will be speaking about coal to meet the nation’s energy requirements at the Press Club in DC on 7/22 http://qorv.is/vib