Posted on 08/08/2010 10:43:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
(VIDEO AT LINK)
When Democrat Joe Biden said on the campaign trail in 2008: “Guess what? We’re not supporting Clean Coal… No coal plants here in America,” liberal reporters rushed in to protect Barack Obama. They passed it off as a gaffe.
Typical was this report from Jonathan Martin of Politico: “McCain seizes on Biden coal gaffe”:
Barack Obama is actually on record supporting the expansion of such technologies, but Biden’s words are prompting Republicans to lick their lips about the potential resonance of the issue in key coal states such as Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Colorado.
To drive the issue, they’re circulating the above video, will hold a conference call later today with a coalition of elected officials, coal miners and executives from such states, stage local media events on the matter later in the week and likely cut an ad targeted at relevant markets
McCain himself is also picking up on it.
Fortuitously stumping in Ohio today — where he picked up the support of an Operating Engineers local — the Republican sought to shift attention from Wall Street to Biden’s gaffe.
Good gravy. At least my blog is labeled opinion, not news. Note that McCain is reported to be using this gaffe to turn “attention from Wall Street.” Nice straw man.
Once Obama took office, Biden’s words were proved to be prophetic.
Coal permits are being arbitrarily pulled or delayed as the administration tries to kill an industry, with the permission of former UMW president Rich Trumka.
Via Glenn Reynolds, this blog post: “Report: Peak coal could happen by 2011… if we don’t start any more mines!”
The blogger that Glenn Reynolds linked seems to think this is a good thing because this will save mountaintops from being blown off.
But why is coal evil?
No one gives a straight answer.
Is it the surface mining of hills — “mountaintop” removal — that makes it evil?
Biden said in that clip that coal causes global warming and that’s his reason — but then he goes on to say that coal burned in China is going into your lungs.
They give every reason, but no reason because what they are trying to do is stop America’s supply of cheap electricity.
Under Jimmy Carter, Democrats killed the domestic nuclear industry. GE is cool with that as it builds nuke plants overseas.
Now they are killing coal. Obama was deceitful in 2008 about his plan. The press never called him on it.
That’s a shame.
I seem to remember that during the campaign Obama said his plan for clean energy, aka Cap and Trade, would “necessarily bankrupt the coal industry”.
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