"I laugh at such an uneducated response. Of course the sun doesn’t shine all the time; of course the wind doesn’t blow all the time. Geothermal does pour from the earth all the time and that’s why you need back up but do we need to use dirty coal to back up, of course not. There’s so many other things we can do. Natural gas, there’s biomasses, all kinds of things we can do and no matter how many times you repeat it, that coal is clean, coal’s dirty."
- US Senator Harry Reid – Majority Leader US Senate responding to Sierra Pacific Resources Chairman Michael Yakira’s comments on the need for back up power from coal fired plants in White Pine County.
