coal

Madame—

Your article, “Crime and Punishment: Jumping off the coal train,” argues that despite the benefits of coal America should switch to "sustainable" energy production. Yet, aside from a ludicrous metaphor comparing coal fuel to eating cake you make no attempt to explain what the benefits of coal actually are. In other words, your article fails to fairly analyze the sacrifice involved for America to “get off the coal train”—and once considered, the cost is hardly insignificant.

In the early 1960s, President Kennedy challenged America to make what would be a giant leap for mankind by putting a man on the moon within the decade. Offering his own version of this challenge in a recent speech, former Vice President Al Gore called on America to transition all electricity production to “renewable” energy sources within ten years through the imposition of a tax on the burning of fossil fuels.