Wind Farms or Coal Mines

[Teresa]

Well I'll be jiggered! (A term an old 89 yr old neighbor in Cedar Vale use to use )
I have learned more in the last week about "stuff". We shore have some smart people in this here ole' forum.. 

[pepelect]

If coal fired plants are so bad for Kansas air quality then why do we have any?  Jefferey Energy Center, etc.

If wind power is so good then why doesn't the state pony up some incentive to build them?  Why can't we drill for coal bed methane pump it into underground storage with wind power and use it to heat the whole state.  IF T.BOne Pickyour nose gets our new gas stations built we can buy Kansas gas.  Don't we ship most of our gas to KC, Chicago, and beyond now?   Why can't we bring in a small consumer of nat gas to EK.   We would have to get the gas from Moline cause our gas in Howard is very high.   Efficiencies of scale I am told.  Larger company with more over head and liability can produce gas at a cheaper rate than smaller inefficient one. 

[Diane Amberg]

  $$$$$$$$$

[archeobabe]

Excuse me for being uninformed but what is "shanks mare"?

[W. Gray]

I always called it shanks pony but it is walking.

[Diane Amberg]

We call it shanks' mare too...your shanks (legs)  are your mare (or pony).