Fact: Obama will increase your Electricity Bill, by increasing emission fines on Coal companies until they go "bankrupt". Gas prices will also be higher since Obama doesnt support offshore drilling.
Posted on 11/03/2008 6:39:04 AM PST by pissant
Yesterday, a ten month old audio clip and video of Sen. Barack Obama in front of an editorial board in San Fransisco made it’s way onto the internet, thanks largely in part to the Illinois senator’s comments about coal.
"What I've said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there," Obama said in a Jan. 17 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.
"I was the first to call for a 100 percent auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter," Obama continued. "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 the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.
"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."
"The only thing I've said with respect to coal, I haven't been some coal booster," Obama said in the San Francisco Chronicle interview. "What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as an ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it."
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
well done
Has this newspaper endorsed McCain?
They have now!
Everyone who uses electricity will be interested in hearing this. Over and over and over and....
An integrated mill burns coal to make coke and then burns the coke. Sometimes driving by you can smell the sulphur from the coal.
My wife said once, "What's that smell?" as we drove by. "Money," I replied.
That's the part these a$$hats don't get.
You know this is the buzz in Pitt today. Everyone will be talking about it.
I think this may be the straw that breaks Obamas back in PA
This is as big as W’s DUI revelation. Maybe bigger.
My husband has mined for 35 years.... God help me but I hate Bambi!
When I was a brat in the sixties, we had to drive around the tip of Lake Michigan in order to reach points east. All roads squeezed together in Gary, like they do today. I'll always recall the color of the sky, as well as the aroma, especially in '67 with the alewife die-off. The sky is clear now, but the money's gone too. I don't see how killing off the remaining industry will 'grow the economy'(I hate that term), or benefit anyone.
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