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Democrat Platform Pushes Coal Generation
Electric Power Daily ^ | (7/28/04) | I got the rope

Posted on 07/29/2004 5:04:48 AM PDT by I got the rope

Democrats meeting in Boston this week are promising to support coal as a key domestic fuel for power generation and say the party would “move beyond OPEC” by diversifying sources of oil used in the United States. The party also calls for investing billions of dollars in technologies to generate electricity with less pollution. “We believe coal must continue its important role in a new energy economy, while achieving high environmental standards,” the 2004 Democratic National Platform Committee report says. In addition, the platform would invest in hydrogen technologies.

It supports “mandatory, enforceable reliability standards” and creation of public-private partnerships to spur more generation that is environmentally friendly.

Source: Electric Power Daily (7/28/04) P. 4


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coal; dncplatform; energy; environment; generation; power; utilities
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To: mewzilla
Click here for a 2001 thread with more on the coal angle.
21 posted on 07/29/2004 6:41:16 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: AppyPappy

Easy explanation: Union jobs in WestVirginia


22 posted on 07/29/2004 6:41:39 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: Alamo-Girl

FYI ping :)


23 posted on 07/29/2004 6:42:11 AM PDT by mewzilla
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To: I got the rope
"This stinks to high heaven."

You are so right. The entire DNC 2004 "platform" stinks to high heaven. Strange though that the enviro-whackos and the media won't call the Dims on it.

24 posted on 07/29/2004 6:44:07 AM PDT by Boss_Jim_Gettys ("Hi, Sandy. More highly classified documents or are you just glad to see me?" -- John Kerry)
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To: Puddleglum

No kidding. This is total BS. In fact, there whole show is total BS. On the one hand, Bush/Cheney should be flattered because all they are doing is imitating BC and co-opting all their proposals; imitation is the sincerest form of flattery afterall. However, they are being totally disingenuous. I hope to GOD they don't get away with it.


25 posted on 07/29/2004 6:45:13 AM PDT by Wphile (Keep the UN out of Iraq)
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To: I got the rope

West Virginia.


26 posted on 07/29/2004 6:48:32 AM PDT by kabar
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To: I got the rope
But coal generates more CO2 per BTU than petroleum. Are the DemocRATS for Kyoto or aren't they?
27 posted on 07/29/2004 6:50:10 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: AppyPappy

Not union jobs but electoral votes. If Gore had won WVA, he would have been President.


28 posted on 07/29/2004 6:50:12 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Paleo Conservative; All

LOL! Yessir. They sure are painting themselves in a corner. Gotta go all, be back later with more "stuff".


29 posted on 07/29/2004 6:55:12 AM PDT by I got the rope
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To: I got the rope
Notice how the Rat's have avoided:

Abortion
Gun Control
Raising Taxes
Homosexual Marriage
Military Systems & Spending
Nuclear Proliferation in 3rd World Countries
Immigration & Our Borders
U.N. Oil for Food
"Allies" France, Germany, Russia siding w/ Saddam
Taiwan

30 posted on 07/29/2004 6:56:50 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: I got the rope
Did the union-loving democrats cross the Boston Police Union picket lines to get into Fleet Center?

What's happened to all that Police Union Picket Line business, not a peep from the media?

31 posted on 07/29/2004 6:59:18 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: mewzilla
Coal. I remember something about coal and the Toon admin. And the Riadys, maybe. Something about someone, thanks to the Toon admin, having a lock on the supply of anthracite (I think) coal. That ring a bell with anyone?

Geez, yes... let me hunt thru my old files... man, I had a time finding these!

The Utah Coal Lockup: A trillion dollar Lippo payoff?
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32 posted on 07/29/2004 7:05:31 AM PDT by backhoe (1990's? Decade of Frauds. 2000's? Decade of Lunatics...)
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To: mewzilla

Thanks for the ping!


33 posted on 07/29/2004 7:49:17 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: kabar

Mountain Mama.


34 posted on 07/29/2004 8:33:42 AM PDT by tnlibertarian (Islam cannot coexist with liberty.)
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To: I got the rope

Let's see F'n try to explain in the debates why he's for coal and against drilling for oil in ANWR. Come to think about it, this may be the first time a challenger refuses to debate the incumbent.


35 posted on 07/29/2004 8:59:00 AM PDT by johnb838 (France is the enemy - France has always been the enemy)
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To: I got the rope

The Greenies are going crazy over this. Well, they weren't Democrats anyway.


36 posted on 07/29/2004 9:01:57 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: I got the rope
creation of public-private partnerships

That is probably illegal.

37 posted on 07/29/2004 9:03:25 AM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: Arrowhead1952
Guess the next thing they will ask for is horse and buggies again.

Yes, but even there they forget how disgusting it was to have streets strewn with horse manure. And that horse has to eat.
38 posted on 07/29/2004 9:03:26 AM PDT by johnb838 (France is the enemy - France has always been the enemy)
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To: William Creel

Except the "clean" coal (as I understand it) is all in the West -- one of the largest areas, Escalante Staircase, was made a national area by Clinton after urging from people like R. Redford, and I don't think can be mined. The people in Utah were very upset about it at the time. Other thing is most of the mining/coal in the West is owned by Canadian companies (I don't think that's changed) and US gets cents on the dollar back... I think this is to appease the enviros who want to dismantel a lot of the power-producing dams (even though we need water desperately).


39 posted on 07/29/2004 9:18:09 AM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: I got the rope
Dragging out an old idea from the Carter administration. Huge Syn-Fuel plants and all that. Government jobs for Bechtel, Flour, Foster-Wheeler, Kellogg-Brown & Root

Corporate Welfare! Haliburton!

40 posted on 07/29/2004 9:27:50 AM PDT by muleskinner
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