A lot of coal plants are being converted to natural gas. Not ideal, but better than dumping truckloads of crap into the air that we breathe.
-D > On Mar 9, 2022, at 3:04 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Yep. It’s amazing what fear will do. > > Actually I was at one of my dealers the other day and one of the girls that > works there has a husband who is a welder. He works for a company that > travels around the country dismantling coal power plants. So evidently they > are tearing these down but there is nothing to replace them except wind and > solar. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 9, 2022, at 1:57 PM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >> If we had built all the nuclear plants that got shelved in the 70s, 80’s >> we’d be in good shape. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Mar 9, 2022, at 11:27 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> I am driving from Little Rock to Ft Smith today and pass by the ol’ nuke >>> plant next to I40 which reminded me of this story. Way back in the day I >>> had a great uncle who was a simple farmer/rancher who owned thousands of >>> acres of pasture land. Exactly now much I am not sure. He would try to >>> borrow money from the bank and they would laugh him out. Back in the early >>> 70’s there were plans to build a nuke plant in OK. Guess who they bought >>> thousands of acres of land from? My great uncle. He because a millionaire. >>> Soon the banks were running to him to do business. He ended up being on the >>> board of directors of the bank that turned him down years before. Whatever >>> he sold he still had thousand of acres afterward. >>> >>> Due to protestors the plant never got built. >>> >>> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Fox_Nuclear_Power_Plant >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
