CHARTS: Renewables in Bed With Natural Gas?

[Benton D Struckcheon]

2. Dunno about clean coal...

...sounds silly, but ng is definitely way less polluting than coal. We have actually met our Kyoto goals on CO2 strictly because the falling price of ng made it economically advantageous for utilities to switch to ng from coal.
It is simply a fact that we will need ng as a transitional fuel. This is true globally, not just here. Something will need to be burned for the foreseeable future even if we get a majority of our energy from renewables. It's way better if that something is ng.