It's "global" warming, folks

So the nation's demand for electricity continues to grow.

When I was a kid, my parents' house didn't use much electricity. It had a vacuum-tube black-and-white TV, but no computer, microwave, phone answering machine or dishwasher.

The easiest sources for generating more electricity are natural gas and coal. The price of natural gas is going up. So that leaves coal.

But what happens when a Texas utility tries to build more coal-fired power plants?

And what happens when folks try to prevent more coal-fired plants by going to the banks?

Maybe it's time to build more nuclear plants. No, it's past time.

In doing so, we could develop technology that could help the world. If people think coal-fired power plants and gasoline-powered vehicles are bad in America, they should look at what's happening in China and India.

If you want to attack "greenhouse gases," you have to attack them globally. Focusing on the big, bad plants in Texas while ignoring what's going on overseas just won't cut it.