Posted on 10/21/2009 4:37:13 AM PDT by RC one
CHARLESTON -- The governor of the country's second-largest coal-producing state is angling for a sit-down with President Barack Obama over his administration's stance on climate change and its pursuit of cap-and-trade legislation.
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin told The Associated Press on Tuesday that his state has a role to play as the nation considers cutting climate-affecting energy sources.
Carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere, and coal releases that gas when burned. The White House wishes to curb carbon emissions and reduce the use of fossil-derived fuel, though that goal also dovetails with the push to replace foreign oil as a key energy source.
While less than a fourth of the energy consumed in the U.S. last year came from coal, it accounted for just over half the country's electric power. Manchin hopes that will help him persuade the president that investing in the right technology can allow the U.S. to continue to rely on coal, but more cleanly.
"Coal is going to be our primary provider of electricity for the next 30 years. That's the practical reality," Manchin told AP. "West Virginia is very much willing to be involved and play a responsible role."
"Coal is going to be our primary provider of electricity for the next 30 years. That's the practical reality,"
who needs reality when you have hope and change?
Shouldn’t that be the job of those two West Virginia stalwarts, Jay Rockefeller and Sheets Byrd?
I don’t care who talks to him about it as long as they talk him out of it.
when has zerO been talked out of anything?
He’s been spoiled and indulged his entire created life and has internalized his created self-image as a fricken genius who is smarter than the rest of mankind.....
Now, go buy a flag for UN day
All he’ll get is a tin ear as the good people of West Virginia and other coal producing areas of the country take it on the chin. November 2010.
I think Manchin is doing this to set the stage for appointing himself as Sheets' successor in the event Sheets (who would be almost 96 in Nov. 2012) does not finish his term.
Manchin is really not that bad for a Democrat, fiscally responsible and not nearly as hostile to small business as some of the others.
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