The highest price: deaths of coal miners. (Reply #2)

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Thu Dec 22, 2011, 01:11 AM

2. The highest price: deaths of coal miners.

http://frankwarner.typepad.com/free_frank_warner/2006/01/us_coal_mining_.html

not to mention deaths due to overloaded coal trucks:

From 2000 to 2004, there were more than seven hundred accidents involving coal trucks in Kentucky alone; fifty-three people died, and more than five hundred were injured.

http://www.plunderingappalachia.org/theissue.htm

ETA: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=56976&mesg_id=57059

(notice the trucks in the video driving over bridges w/10-12 ton limits)

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The new EPA regulations and this persistent "cheap energy" meme... [View all]	Zalatix	Dec 2011	OP
Actually, energy is ridiculously cheap	Gore1FL	Dec 2011	#1
Wait, do batteries and solar power panels generate mercury?	Zalatix	Dec 2011	#3
yes	Gore1FL	Dec 2011	#4
The highest price: deaths of coal miners.	eppur_se_muova	Dec 2011	#2

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