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McCain’s Eleventh Hour Attack Hits Obama For Having The Same Stance As McCain
Comments from Left Field —
... For a more wonkish breakdown, one should go read The Wonk Room. What Obama was talking about in coal plants being bankrupted is that due to cap and trade policies, opening up a new coal plant would end up costing so much money that they wouldn’t be able to stay afloat. Thus, the real push would be to invest in clean coal technology which would allow for the usage of coal but not result in the ridiculously high cost that traditional coal would incur due to policies enacted to control green house gas emissions. ...
Ohio's GOP Senator: McCain "Will Put Coal Out Of Business"
Daily Kos —
... (more detail below), but it turns out that Barack Obama and John McCain have the same position on clean coal technology, and Ohio's Republican senator ...
Dirty Tricks Done Dirt Cheap
Newshoggers.com —
... 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. But it's just the Right cherry-picking its quotes again to fabricate a smear out of whole cloth.
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Dirty Tricks Done Dirt Cheap
Crooks and Liars —
... 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.
But it's just the Right cherry-picking its quotes again to fabricate a smear out of whole cloth.
This ...
11/3: Caught On Tape
Blogometer —
... the recording, which had been on the newspaper's website all along. And rather than reveal some sinister scheme, what it actually demonstrated was that Barack Obama supported clean coal technology -- a position he shares with none other than John McCain." OBAMA II: He's Related To An Illegal! Several conservative bloggers were outraged to learn that ...
Romney: McCain’s Cap And Trade Plan Would ‘Just Kill Jobs’ In The U.S.
Think Progress —
... Both McCain and Obama support the development of carbon sequestration technologies; in fact, in the same interview conservatives are now hyperventilating over, Obama said, “This idea of no coal, I think, is an illusion.” What’s more, a green energy-based economy built through an aggressive cap-and-trade program would create millions of jobs and generate billions of dollars for investment into clean energy, as John McCain himself noted just six months ago:
As never before, the market ...
