A Defender and a VW Thing had a hipster baby
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I always get a kick out of telling Prius owners that their cars are coal powered. :smilelol:
Coal use to be the leading source for electrical power in the US but it is getting passed by natural gas.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
Major energy sources and percent shares of U.S. electricity generation at utility-scale facilities in 20161
Natural gas = 33.8%
Coal = 30.4%
Nuclear = 19.7%
Renewables (total) = 14.9%
-Hydropower = 6.5%
-Wind = 5.6%
-Biomass = 1.5%
-Solar = 0.9%
-Geothermal = 0.4%
Petroleum = 0.6%
Other gases = 0.3%
Other nonrenewable sources = 0.3%
Pumped storage hydroelectricity = -0.2%4
https://townhall.com/columnists/stephenmoore/2017/08/01/coal-is-no-1-n2362550
I was in ND, SD and WY over the weekend. We saw a very long coal train heading East every 15 minutes all day long, the empties came back over night. In CO they run to the South from WY almost as much.
I was in ND, SD and WY over the weekend. We saw a very long coal train heading East every 15 minutes all day long, the empties came back over night. In CO they run to the South from WY almost as much.
Oh please. That new 4.6 in your truck sounds like heaven on earth. It's had me looking at D2s since April.