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Obama Will Turn Out the Lights On Coal Industry
A Blog For All —
... , including Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Montana. Coal also represents nearly 50% of all power produced in the nation. UPDATE: Gateway Pundit has more. So does ...
How to bankrupt the coal industry
Power Line —
... Sundy morning buzz: Everyone's sending me the audio clip now up on YouTube of Obama telling the San Francisco Chronicle he'll make it impossible for new coal plants to be built. The interview took place in January. The YouTube user is NakedEmperorNews, who uploaded Obama's redistribution of wealth interview.
Bankruptcy: The change Obama thinks the coal industry deserves...
Listen here. Jim Hoft posts the transcript here. Ed Morrissey comments here.
Is this guy for real? He is one very cold customer. ...
Obama Told Paper He Will Intentionally Bankrupt The Coal Industry
Flopping Aces —
... “If they don’t start building coal plants, it’s going to be an economic prosperity problem for the country,” says Richard Storm, CEO of Storm Technologies, an Albemarle, N.C., company that specializes in optimizing coal-fired power plants. “We need coal. Coal is a national treasure.”
and now they have even more reason to be worried: (h/t Gateway Pundit)
The transcript of the interview:
Let me sort of describe my overall policy.
What I’ve ...
Obankrupting the Coal Industry
Riehl World View —
... But don't worry, Pennsylvanians - maybe you'll actually see that Obama tax cut once you don't pay anymore taxes because you can't find a job. h/t Gateway Pundit ...
Political Will and Technology
Chicago Boyz —
... So, Obama plans to implement an auction based carbon cap-and-trade system so onerous that it would bankrupt anybody that tried to build a coal fired plant. Not worry, however, he will use the proceeds of the auction to fund alternative energy sources. [video, ...
Shocking Audio: Obama Promises to Bankrupt Coal Industry
Stop The ACLU —
In the name of the almighty environmental movement… Gateway Pundit provides a partial transcript: Let me sort of describe my overall policy. 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. I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases 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 that ...
Obama Promised Audience: Will Destroy Coal Industry
PoliGazette —
... Speaking to the San Francisco Chronicle in January this year, Senator Barack Obama said that he would put a new “cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there” if he would become president. ...
Obama’s Plan to Bankrupt the Coal Industry
Patterico's Pontifications —
... Gateway Pundit posts the audio and a transcript from a January 2008 San Francisco Gate interview in which Barack Obama said twice that he will bankrupt coal plants with heavy fees for emitting greenhouse gases: ...
So tell me again why Obama is expected to win in any state that has a large coal economy
Basil's Blog —
... Mexico (27,323)
Utah (26,656)
*Ohio (22,269)
Alabama (19,324)
Totals in thousands of short tons, as of 2000. States marked with an asterisk (*) are listed as leaning/strong Obama by RealClearPolitics.com on November 2, 2008.
If McCain won those states, he’d win the election.
But here’s the reality … or so it seems: Obama leads in 6 of the top coal-producing states.
And Obama wants to bankrupt the coal industry:
Let me sort of describe my overall policy.
What ...
Crushing Average Americans
Blue Crab Boulevard —
... of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers. The earlier comments about coal are part of this: Obama fully intends to destroy the coal industry and bankrupt anyone who builds a coal plant in ...
Bill Dyer: Obama quotes: "[I]f somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them," and electricity rates will "necessarily skyrocket"
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
... rigorous standards for the allowable emissions, then we can allow the market to determine and technology and entrepreneurs to pursue, what the best approach is to take, as opposed to us saying at the outset, here are the winners that weâre picking and maybe we pick wrong and maybe we pick right.â That long quote comes from ABC News' Jake Tapper, as taken from a January 2008 interview Sen. Obama gave to the San Francisco Chronicle. You can see a video clip with Obama's voice at Gateway Pundit . Obama is saying as clearly as it's possible to say that the taxes and penalties ...
Obama And Coal
Winds of Change.NET —
There's a lot of heated words on Memeorandum on Obama's taped conversation with the SF Chronicle about coal, and I think they are unfair.
Here are some headlines:
Hidden Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry
EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO-- Obama Promises San Francisco Audience He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry!!
OBAMA BRAGS ABOUT BANKRUPTING COAL POWER PLANT COMPANIES
...and so on.
They're kind of full of it.
First of all, he's talking about making it ...
Dem’s Cap & Trade Bill Is $3.6 Trillion Gas Tax Too
Gateway Pundit —
... on the campaign trail in 2008 saying the program “would cause energy prices to skyrocket.” Obama also promised an audience of supporters that cap and trade would bankrupt the coal industry. White House Budget Director Peter Orszag told George Stephanopoulos in a March 2009 interview that Obama’s proposed cap and trade energy legislation would ...
