Pretty soon China is going to be the global leader. Coal is the past. I know many people in WV depend on it, but its done nothing but harm to our state. Thousands of our brothers, sons, and fathers have been killed in the mines. The mines have polluted our water, our air, and our soil. WV has the second highest output of coal in the nation, yet we are also the second poorest state in the nation. How does black lung help our economy? If coal is Gods gift to man, why is the state so broke? West Virginia is never going to get huge corporations, only 3% of our land is flat, and its far too expensive to build large compounds. Instead of trying to prevent progress, why not embrace it? Change is hard. I know, my brother, and father were both coal miners. However, coal is not our future. Mines shut down everyday, and the coal is running out. The slurry leaking from pits across the state have lead to WV having one of the highest cancer rates in America. Its time to turn a new page. Its time to put our people in college, and get out of last place in the nation for number of citizens with a degree. We can invest in and protect this planet which God has entrusted us with. Wind is abundant and never ending. The sun is the greatest source of power in the solar system. We can harness these energies, and harness the jobs and the investment that comes with them. How long are we going to sit on our hands while another mine closes? The future is green energy. Are we going to be a leader, or continue to place dead last behind every other state clenching onto our precious dirty coal? We can't keep telling people that want to look ahead and not behind to step aside.

This is why we need to bring all the troops home, We are fighting the wrong enemy in the wrong country!!

We need to pause, coal is NOT an outdated source of energy nor are the great people of WV ignorant. I hear terms like "change with the times", "get out of the stone age" and you could not be further from the truth. Values and Hard Work are NOT outdated, nor is the precious coal in the WV hills. What we need is to quit being a PC nation, we need to tell the ECO nuts to move to another planet and we need leaders and citizens to stand for what is right, not what is political!

Showalter Micropower, green and clean ! Where are you? WV coal needs you!

This is great news! We have been stuck in the stone age for far too long. Pretty soon we are going to even be behind China. China is outpacing us in clean energy, thats sad. This will make clean energy affordable. We do not need to be sending 1.2 trillion per year to Saudi Arabia! West Virginia used to be a very well off state financially. With all the coal mines closed, and coal running out, this is great news for jobs here in the valley. WVU launched a program last fall that starts trainig for the high technology employees that will be needed for building solar cells, wind mills, and run geo theramal plants. Thank goodness we have eduated people in office! No more coal companies paying off our government officials to block clean and renewable energy of the future! Its time to get our boys out from the dangerous underground, and up into the sunshine to build the energy of tomorrow!

THE WEST VIRGINIA GOVERNMENT IS TAKING ON THE SAME IMAGE AS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT-- ALL THOSE STUPID 'PEOPLE' OUT THERE, DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING. AND 'WE' CAN DO WHAT WE WANT. ARE THERE ANY 'PAYMENTS' TO THE LEGISLATORS FOR THEIR VOTES?? AND WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT THE NEXT ELECTION??

what is going on with our country? why can't we work together even if we disagree! ! !