At 12:50 PM 5/4/99 -0400, Barkley Rosser wrote: > As for lignite, what a joke! The stuff is highly >polluting and not particularly desired by anybody >anymore, although it might be acceptable in poorer >and more polluted countries like.... (Larry Summers >would approve.... ). Exactly. DDR used it to fuel its power plants, making Saxony one of most polluted areas of Europe, but after the "anschluss" these plants were first to close. Wojtek