The Looming Energy Crisis & Common Sense, page-93

Coal & gas will always provide the cheapest dispatchable baseload power.

If succesive governments over decades had not distorted the energy markets by subsidising renewables and demonising coal, we wouldn't be in the position we now find ourselves. Baisc science and engineering facts has been thrown out the window, in the mad rush to save the world from AGW which is a hoax. Just follow the money.