OBAMA TELLS SAN FRANCISCO HE WILL BANKRUPT THE COAL INDUSTRY

It got linked on Drudge Report so it probably overloaded their server. It is an article about a WV Coal Mining official who is incredulous over Obama's statement.

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I am voting for Obama of course.

I do get a bit defensive sometimes, but wasn't in this thread.

But when someone repeatedly calls Obama a "whore", refers to him as "skinny assed mixed race", gleefully predicts he will be shot and assassinated, talks about "damn jew bankers" and the "brown plague", complains about blacks being lazy etc... and then says I am stupid for my first post in this thread... Well, I think the name moron fits.

... the thread OP is bogus anyways. So it doesn't matter.

OP can also stand for Original Post.

That's what they do when they can't argue by applying fact or logic. They attack!

Regards,

John

ps - I got yer back

Because Obama voted for alternative fuel...And McCain never has. Facts are your friend.

And if you're so unbiased, my posts on this thread have been the most factual of anyone's and included unbiased links for others to follow for more info. Neither of my links went to a political party or showed any political bias in any way. You have serious issues with reality.

There wasn't any. That was my point.

I don't think what Obama said can be equated with a desire to bankrupt the coal industry. It seems to me that he is being quoted out of context in order to twist the meaning of his words. Someone posted what Obama said on a blog. Here it is:

"I voted against the Clear Skies Bill. In fact, I was the deciding
vote. Despite the fact that I'm a coal state. And that half my state
thought that I had thoroughly betrayed them. Because I think clean air
is critical and global warming is critical. But this notion of no
coal, I think, is an illusion. Because the fact of the matter is is
that right now we are getting a lot of our energy from coal. And China
is building a coal-powered plant once a week. So what we have to do
then is figure out how can we use coal without emitting greenhouse
gases and carbon. And how can we sequester that carbon and capture it.
If we can't, then we're gonna still be working on alternatives.
But...let me sort of describe my overall policy. What I've said is that
we would put a cap and trade policy in place that is as aggressive if
not more aggressive than anyone out there. I was the first call for
100% auction on the cap and trade system. Which means that every unit
of carbon or greenhouse gases that was emitted would be charged to the
polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are
out there that are being presented, whatever power plants are being
built, they would have to meet the rigors of that market. And the
ratcheted down caps that are 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. That will also generate
billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel, and
other alternative energy approaches. The only thing that I've said
with respect to coal-I haven't been some coal booster."

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Joe Biden is another matter. Either he doesn't know what Obama's
policies are, or he let it slip that Obama is actually anti-coal (for
us).


Here is the Joe Biden audio:

Biden: "We're Not Supporting Clean Coal"

Questioner: "Wind and solar are flourishing here in Ohio. Why are you
supporting clean coal?"

Joe Biden: "We're not supporting clean coal. Guess what? China is
building two every week. Two dirty coal plants. And it is polluting
the United States. It is causing people to die.

Questioner: "So you are supporting wind and solar?"

Joe Biden: "Absolutely. Before anybody did. The first guy to introduce
a global warming bill was me -- twenty two years ago. The first guy to
support solar energy was me -- twenty six years ago. It came out of
Delaware.

But guess what China is gonna burn three hundred years of bad coal,
unless we figure out how to clean their coal up. Because it's gonna
ruin your lungs, and there's nothing we can do about it.

No coal plants here in America. Build them, if they're going to build
them, over there [in China]. Make them clean because they're killing
us."