No the audio has not been around for a while. It just came out. The S.F. newspaper was sitting on it and did not report in its print edition of Obama’s words of bankrupting the coal industry when it wrote its original article from the interview. This is all new info.
Still, everyone in the coal business knew what this guy had in mind with his cap and trade deal ~ he and the enviro-nazis want to put coal out of business ~ just not in China.
Obama is just stupid enough to buy into every hairbrained scheme the left can come up with. The man is not Presidential Timber.