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Obama: We'll bankrupt coal-powered electric plants
BatesLine — From a January 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board : 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 ...

Sarah Palin attacks Barack Obama over old comments on coal (but leaves a few things out)
Top of the Ticket — During a campaign appearance in Marietta, Ohio, Sarah Palin criticized comments made earlier this year by Barack Obama -- which surfaced today in an audio tape posted on YouTube -- in which the Democratic presidential candidate discusses the effect of his proposed emissions policy on the coal industry. “He said that sure, if the industry wants to build new coal-fired plants, then they can go ahead and try, he says, but they can do it only in a way that will bankrupt the coal industry, and he’s comfortable letting that happen,” the GOP vice presidential nominee told 4,800 supporters at Marietta College, not far from the border with West Virginia, a ...

Bill Dyer: SF Chron insists that buried and unremarked Obama promises to bankrupt coal industry and bring skyrocketing electric rates weren't "hidden," but offers no explanation why they weren't newsworthy
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — (Guest Post by Bill Dyer a/k/a Beldar ) Of the bombshell quotes from Barack Obama about "bankrupting" the coal industry and making electric rates "skyrocket" — about which I wrote at my usual tedious length on Sunday evening, and an audio excerpt of which Hugh has since posted separately — the San Francisco Chronicle is now furiously trying to cover its collective fanny in a spectacularly unconvincing fashion. "Political Writer" Carla Marinucci of the S.F. Chronicle righteously asserts that the audio which contained these quotes has been posted at its website since January 2008, and I have no reason to doubt that. It then ...

Bill Dyer: Marinucci claims SF Chron didn't report Obama's promise to "bankrupt" coal industry and cause "skyrocketing" electric rates because readers weren't interested
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — (Guest Post by Bill Dyer a/k/a Beldar ) On Sunday, November 2nd, like many other bloggers, I wrote a long post that included a lengthy quotation from an interview that Sen. Barack Obama gave to the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board in January 2008, in which Sen. Obama promised that under his cap and trade policy, "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." And in that same interview, Obama also promised that "[u]nder my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily ...