Obama: "I-it-it-it..."
San Franscisco reporter: "Alternative including coal, or -- ?"
Obama: "Uh let uh let uh let let let uh let let me sorta describe my overall policy. Uh what I've said was put a, uh, cap-and-trade system in place that is more, uh, that is as aggressive if not more aggressive than anybody else's out there."
"I was the first call [sic] for 100% auction on the cap-and-trade system, uh, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gas that was emitted would be charged, uh, to the polluter. Uh, that will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet tho...the rigors of that market and the ratcheted-down, uh, caps that are place, uh, imposed every year."
"So, if somebody wants to build a coal power plant they can -- it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're gonna be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted. That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, bio-diesel, and other alternative, uh, energy approaches."
"Th-the only thing that I've said with respect to coal -- I haven't been some coal booster -- what I have said is that, uh, for us to take coal off the table as a [sic] ideological matter, as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it."
Cut to Joe Biden saying: "No coal plants here in America. Build them, if they're gonna build them over there, make them clean, because they're killing us. See ya. Thank you."
I would say that it's high time that I bought a generator - it's going to be pretty rough in a few years if this bozo gets hold of our national (lack of) energy policy.