One key reason is that almost all the group's members also own coal plants.
And every senator who wants a coal plant seems to get one.
In that, they are like a majority of coal plants.
Coal plants, on the other hand, are available to meet load more than 90 percent of the time when needed.
As a result, hardly any new coal plants have been built in the last 10 years.
And worst of all, the 1979 study said, a coal plant would not be set to open until January 1988.
Nationwide, power companies are planning to build about 150 coal plants over the next several years.
The greenhouse question for the first time says, maybe all those coal plants should be significantly cut back or closed.
This is to make up for coal plants that are scheduled to be shut down at the end of 2007.
Also, no coal plant will supply anyone with the material for a nuclear weapon.
