http://pjmedia.com/blog/unreliable-germa...coal-boom/

For many reasons. But in the US? We're striving to repeat all of those mistakes.

The Germans are returning to fossil fuels because their leftist wacko Greens used poor design standards at a nuclear plant on the other side of the world be an excuse to target well placed and well designed nuclear reactors for protests and shutdowns in Germany. Only a few years ahead of a major reelection, Merkel said "screw it" and decided not to cause an uproar by defending the the German nuclear industry.

So be it.

The irony of Obama's anti-coal stance is he's pushing the American power industry toward nuclear and gas-turbines (another fossil fuel).