Hidden Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Imagine if John McCain had whispered somewhere that he was willing to bankrupt a major industry? Would this declaration not immediately be front page news? Well, Barack Obama actually flat out told the San Francisco Chronicle (SF Gate) that he was willing to see the coal industry go bankrupt in a January 17, 2008 interview. The result? Nothing. This audio interview ...

EXPLOSIVE NEW AUDIO-- Obama Promises to Bankrupt Coal Industry!!
Gateway Pundit — OBAMA TOLD A SAN FRANCISCO AUDIENCE THAT HE WILL BANKRUPT THE COAL INDUSTRY!!! ATTN: Coal states Virginia , Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Indiana, guess what Obama told San Francisco about you? OBAMA TELLS SAN FRANCISCO HE WILL BANKRUPT THE COAL INDUSTRY: Here's the transcript from his talk to San Francisco Gate in January 2008: 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 ...

Audio: Obama's Cap and Trade Policy So Aggressive It Will Bankrupt Coal Powered Plants
Wizbang — Newsbusters posted this Obama audio from January 2008 in which he says he supports a Cap and Trade policy that is so aggressive that it would bankrupt coal powered plants. Take a listen: Voters in coal states around the country need to know this. Barack Obama wants to essentially kill the coal industry, which is in line with Biden's previous comment that there should be no coal plants in America. These are the coal states that would be affected if Obama is able to implement his Cap and Trade policy.

Discovered 'Hidden Audio': Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry
Hyscience — This is most definitely something the people of Pennsylvania need to know about: Here is the transcript from NewsBusters of Obama's statement about bankrupting the coal industry (HT - Pam):  Let me sort of describe my overall policy. What I've said is ...

Audio: Obama will bankrupt the coal industry
Michelle Malkin — 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. [...] Read the rest » ...

Obama Wants Cap And Trade System So Aggressive It Would Bankrupt Coal Powerplants
Say Anything — "If someone wants to build a coal power plant they can, it’s just that it will bankrupt them.” Shouldn’t markets dictate which types of power plants go out of business and which flourish?  Is it really a good idea to have politicians putting into place policies that punish certain types of businesses just for existing? I know coal isn’t really an eco-friendly power source, but it’s a cheap and readily available power source that already powers millions of homes and businesses in this country.  If Obama runs coal power out of ...

Obama Will Turn Out the Lights On Coal Industry
A Blog For All — Sen. Barack Obama in his own words. He would love to turn out the lights on the coal industry by bankrupting the industry because of the most aggressive global warming scam cap and trade policies on the planet. He doesn't outlaw anyone from building new power plants, but he most certainly hopes that his cap and trade policies would result in bankrupting the industry because of the incredibly high fees that would be imposed on anyone emitting greenhouse gases. His running mate Joe Biden has similarly stated ...

Obama: We’ll bankrupt any new coal plants
Hot Air » Top Picks — Obama: We’ll bankrupt any new coal plants posted at 10:40 am on November 2, 2008 by Ed Morrissey Send to a Friend | printer-friendly The folks at Naked Emperor News have unearthed another interesting nugget from a Barack Obama interview from months ago. In January 2008, Obama spoke about his approach to global warming and cap-and-trade systems, and he had a warning for anyone foolish enough to invest in coal: So, if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can — it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted. Yesterday, we looked at Obama’s notions of government ...

Obama: We Will Bankrupt the Coal Plants
Politics Daily — Filed under: Barack Obama, 2008 President, GaffesWow. This is from the same outfit that unearthed the "redistribution is the goal" video that caused such heartburn (and dropping poll numbers) for Obama last weekend. Naked Emperor News: We're likely going to find that this audio was unearthed by a Republican leaning oppo group, but that doesn't do anything to lessen the devastating impact here. These are Obama's words, from just a few months ago. McCain is targeting OH, VA, WV, and PA, a blue state that where McCain has been quickly catching up in the ...

Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle His Policies Would Bankrupt The Coal Industry
Say Anything — This guy’s ideology trumps your need to feed your family. And before the lefties start chirping that he says he’ll replace the coal industry with other sources of power note this: It would be decades before all the coal fired plants could be replaced. That’s a long time between paychecks. Thanks to Jim Treacher and Naked Emperor News for this one. ...

Shutting Down The Coal Industry
small dead animals — Shutting Down The Coal Industry Is there nothing that Obama can't do? "If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can, it's just that it will "bankrupt them". Related - "Senator Barack Obama is not only a long time associate of domestic terrorists. He is cribbing his stump speeches from their manifesto." Posted by Kate at November 2, 2008 10:58 AM

OBAMA BRAGS ABOUT BANKRUPTING COAL POWER PLANT COMPANIES
Right Wing Nut House — Nagarajan Sivakumar Said: 11:41 am An yet he is poised to win comfortably.Demographic changes in VA, CO, are going to continue favoring the Dems in coming elections – re-districting in the next 2 years are going to make things even better for them. Hello Wilderness. Is George W Bush the best thing to have happened to the Democrat party since FDR or what? Not all Bush’s fault (but it is pretty easy to blame him). The country has been moving further left for a while. We are getting used to asking government for stuff our grandparents would never have dreamed of. And since Democrats seem willing to give it to them, they are electing more of them. ed mark30339 Said: ...

Obama Tells San Francisco He Will Bankrupt The Coal Industry - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Tax them to DEATH so its to expensive to open a new company…. Clean Coal and saving jobs under Obama - Guess again…

Shocka: Obama in San Franciso - I Will Bankrupt the Coal Industry
The Jawa Report — November 02, 2008 Shocka: Obama in San Franciso - I Will Bankrupt the Coal Industry 27 Coal mining states be wary of the Hope & Change person. He plans to spread the greenhouse tax from coal plants and give to "greenies". Just peachy - not! 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.[...] 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. [...] So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's ...

How to bankrupt the coal industry
Power Line — Barack Obama advocates a cap-and-trade approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He forthrightly describes the result: "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." MIchelle Malkin explains: 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 ...

Obama’s Plan To Bankrupt The Coal Industry
Nice Deb — Do the voters in Pennsylvania, and Ohio know about this?: Transcript via Newsbusters: 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 ...

Brainster's Blog — Obama: I Will Bankrupt the Coal Industry Asked for a comment, Andrew Sullivan said that Obama's position was actually the conservative position. "He talked about markets, and that's conservative." Update: Rick Moran's take: Change you can freeze to death by. His commenter Darren points out this contractiction in Obama's grandiose claims: 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 ...

Obama's Plan To Bankrupt New Coal Plants [Nice Deb]
Ace of Spades HQ — Obama's Plan To Bankrupt New Coal Plants [Nice Deb] This is another gem uncovered by Naked Emperor News. It's from an interview Obama gave to the San Francisco Chronicle in which he speaks of his approach to global warming and cap-and-trade systems. It's an approach I'm not sure the bitter gun clingers of Pennsylvania would appreciate: The transcript via Newsbusters: ...

Coal States: Vote McCain, or against your economic interests. Your call.
RedState: Conservative News and Community — I mean, really, what's with that lack of a transcript? Via Constant Reader Pentagon16 we see this video and Hot Air post about Obama, coal plants, and how the former will smother the creation of the latter if he ever gets the chance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdi4onAQBWQ If you're working on GOTV for Colorado or Pennsylvania, by all means: pass that along to people. Indiana, Ohio, and Virginia, too - just to be on the safe side. Like Ed Morrissey, I'd like to see the complete transcript on this one - odd that it's not readily available - but that's all ...

Amanda Carpenter: Obama Will Bankrupt Coal
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Barack Obama has tried to pretend that he's a friend to clean coal, but now this San Francisco Chronicle interview resurfaces courtesy of our friends at Newsbusters. Go ahead, build new coal plants he says. He'll just bankrupt them later through the tax code. OBAMA: 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 are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being ...

Obama Told Paper He Will Intentionally Bankrupt The Coal Industry
Flopping Aces — According to this chart there are 20+ States that have a coal industry: Including Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Indiana. The coal industry as a whole has been worried about the downturn in new coal plants: Others call the growing resistance to coal power worrying. “It is a crisis for us because what we are not really focusing on is: Where is the electricity we need for the next 50 years going to come from?” said Gregory Boyce, chairman of Peabody Energy, at a “clean tech” conference recently in Palm Springs, Calif. “We view it as short-term and very unfortunate because ...

Obankrupting the Coal Industry
Riehl World View — Sure you can build a coal plant. We'll just rig the market to bankrupt you. 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 ...

Obama Promises to Bankrupt Coal Industry
Moonbattery — People in coal country are going to have to cling all the more bitterly to their guns and Bibles if Obama gets a chance to deliberately destroy the coal industry: A partial transcript, via NewsBusters: So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that ...

Freezing in the Dark
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler — This ought to be a big hit with coal miners. Or, for that matter, anybody else since we currently produce half of our electricity with coal. But hey, candlelight is so romantic . What are we talking about? The ObaMarx’s energy “plan”, that’s what. The plan under which he intends to put the coal business out of business and good. But why don’t we let him speak for himself?: 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.[...] 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 ...

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 are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted ...

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 plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and ...

Obama’s Cap and Trade Plan Will Bankrupt Coal Industry
Boots and Sabers — Obama’s Cap and Trade Plan Will Bankrupt Coal Industry His own words, folks. Hope you’re listening. Posted by Owen at 1304 hrs Politics + Politics - General

So tell me again why Obama is expected to win in any state that has a large coal economy
Basil's Blog — Latest polls (if you believe them) show Barack Obama winning in many of the largest coal-producing states. Of the top 15 coal-producing states, Obama leads the polls in 6 of them, for a total of 89 electoral votes: Wyoming (338,900) West Virginia (158,257) Kentucky (130,688) *Pennsylvania (74,619) Texas (49,498) Montana (38,352) *Illinois (33,444) *Virginia (32,834) North Dakota (31,270) *Colorado (29,137) Indiana (27,965) *New Mexico (27,323) Utah (26,656) *Ohio (22,269) Alabama (19,324) Totals in ...

Profound stupidity from the “Smart Guy”
Silent Running — 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. Barack Obama, interview with the SF Chronicle, Jan 2008 ...

Climate change activism in practice
TigerHawk — The latest widely-publicized moment of Obamacandor is this bit from an interview last summer, in which he expresses, essentially, the intention to bankrupt the coal industry: Of course, if you believe that anthropogenic global warming has the potential for global cataclysm, then perhaps this is a refreshing moment when a politician with a lot on the line speaks truth to power. Similarly, if you believe that the case for AGW or its consequences has not been made, much less proved, this video reveals the stakes. Policies designed to avert the predicted climate change will have massive consequences for very specific people, and, no, mythical "green collar" jobs will not make ...

Obama: We Will Bankrupt You
Classical Values — Obama: We Will Bankrupt You He is talking about how he will bankrupt any investment in new coal power plants. I think that is just the start. BTW Obama's State, Illinois, has a significant coal mining industry. Cross Posted at Power and Control ...

How to Lose Pennsylvania?
Weekly Standard Blog — What is it about San Francisco that makes Barack Obama say things that offend Pennsylvania voters? During his infamous San Fran fundraiser back in April, Obama said that folks in Pennsylvania bitterly clung to their guns, religion, and xenophobia because they were economically depressed. Now, Newsbusters digs up an audio recording of Obama telling the San Francisco Gate that his environmental policies will "bankrupt" the coal industry: 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 ...

Obamalot candor
protein wisdom — Not that I’m surprised at this stage, but here are a couple of bits to get your blood pressure up. First, here’s Dr Charles Ogletree, an Obama advisor on race, articulating the “post-racial” position that whites are, of course, racist. This comes on the heels of his having noted recently ...

Woah!... Palin SLAMS Obama For Coal-Crushing Comments!
Gateway Pundit — That didn't take long! Sarah Palin SLAMMED Barack Obama today in Ohio for promising an audience in San Francisco that he would bankrupt the coal industry! The Wall Street Journal reported: Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin unleashed a new volley against Barack Obama on a four-city tour of Ohio on Sunday by touting newly released audio comments made by the Democratic presidential candidate promising to restrict the construction of new coal-fired power plants in the U.S. The issue is particularly sensitive in coal-rich Ohio, West ...

McCain And Obama Criticize New Coal Plants — Right Wing Goes Insane
Wonk Room — Both presidential candidates, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) have called for a mandatory cap on carbon emissions in the United States. Coal-fired power plants, which produce about 49 percent of U.S. electricity, account for 83 percent of power-sector emissions. Because of the global warming footprint, the cheapness of coal-fired electricity is illusory. Under a cap-and-trade system, the cost of those emissions — now a market externality — would have a dollar cost. In a January 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Obama used blunt language to describe how a cap and trade system would change the future of ...

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 ...

Obama Threatens to Bankrupt Coal Industry
Tammy Bruce — So it looks like Barky has all you bitter, clingy, racist rednecks in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Colorado, Texas, Indiana, Montana, Illinois, Wyoming, West Virginia, and Kentucky targeted for unemployment, too. Palin Goes After Obama on Coal Comments In the interview Obama spoke about his energy plan which includes an “aggressive” cap and trade policy which will charge polluters in an effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions. John McCain is also a supporter of cap and trade. “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 ...

Quoting presidential candidates at length is racist
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — Quoting presidential candidates at length is racist Funny how he only says this kind of stuff in San Francisco. That's where he gave us that nugget of gold about Pennsylvanians "clinging to guns and religion." Speaking of San Fran (which is what I call it because I know they don't like it), has anybody there ever asked Obama why he's against gay marriage? I think Charles Karel Bouley might be interested in that one. Remember Bouley? He's the SF radio jackass who said Tony Snow deserved to get cancer ...

Will The Coal Industry Still Exist?
California Conservative — Salena Zito’s post is all over the comemnts Barack Obama made to the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board. Here’s a transcript of what Sen. Obama said in January, 2008: 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 says he will bankrupt coal industry
USS Neverdock — Now you know why Biden said there would be no more coal plants in America. An audio excerpt from the interview can be found at YouTube. Obama: "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."

Looking At Obama's Plan To Bankrupt the Coal Industry
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Thanks to some good investigative work by NewsBusters, we now have the audio of a January, 2008 interview that Barack Obama gave to the San Francisco Chronicle in which he says he plans to bankrupt the coal industry and the majority of America’s electrical power generation. Both Barack Obama and Joe Biden have views about coal which should concern all Americans but which represent very substantial danger to several states, at least a few of which (Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Colorado) are critical in this week’s election. Putting this in perspective for my state, Colorado, Obama’s view represents a serious threat and one which should cause ...

Coal, Mining Groups Blast Obama
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room — Coal, Mining Groups Blast Obama National and state coal groups are blasting Barack Obama today over a recently publicized audio tape of Barack Obama talking coal with the San Franciso Chronicle in January. The National Mining Association, the West Virginia Coal Association, the Ohio Coal Association, and the Kentucky Coal Association have all criticized the Democratic candidate over a controversial remark about coal power plants, made in a January interview with the San Francisco Chronicle , in which Obama suggests building coal power plants would "bankrupt" energy corporations and investors. In the tape, Obama outlines his cap-and-trade energy plan, which ...

11/3: Caught On Tape
Blogometer — November 03, 2008 11/3: Caught On Tape Lately, the conservative blogosphere has been obsessed with various audio and video tapes that they believe to be damaging to Barack Obama 's presidential prospects. Conservative bloggers spent the early part of last week buzzing ...

A COLD AND RUTHLESS NARCISSIST
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — Listen to the voice of a cold and ruthless, narcissistic psychopath: Listen to how calmly and coldly he announces his intention of bankrupting the coal industry. And then listen to him claim that bankrupting the coal industry will generate billions of dollars for alternative energy programs. And if you think the cold, ruthless voice of the narcissistic psychopath is disturbing, just watch him in action: Don't like what you hear? Don't like what you see? Like the man says, vote accordingly.

Obama’s lump of coal
neo-neocon — Another blast from the Obama past has been dropped, a bombshell interview from last January with the San Francisco Chronicle in which Obama said that the environmental policies he proposes would cause builders of new coal plants to go bankrupt. And he didn’t sound the least bit sad about the prospect. Republicans are pushing the quote, especially in swing states that figure heavily in the coal industry. But Obama’s supporters are claiming it’s a mere excerpt taken out of context and being used to mislead. Fortunately, Jake Tapper of ABC has obliged by offering a longer transcript that contains Obama’s complete ...

Change is hard, and hard is fair!
Classical Values — Change is hard, and hard is fair! The "lost" (and recently discovered ) video that M. Simon linked earlier in which Barack Obama outlines his plan to bankrupt the coal industry has naturally raised many hackles. Glenn Reynolds has a roundup of links; Ed Driscoll has lots of details and Don Surber provides context. Here is what Barack Obama actually said : "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 ...

Murdock: Obama Declares War on Coal
National Review Online — I n a November surprise, Barack Obama envisions bankrupting anyone who tries to open a new coal-powered electrical plant. This news should chill voters in coal-producing states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. It also should worry Americans from coast to coast who rely on coal-fueled electricity far more than they may realize. They also will pay more for it than they do today. Talk about change. Obama openly discussed this with the San Francisco Chronicle . However, the piece that appeared last January 18 excluded these details which surfaced over the weekend, thanks to an audio tape ...

Right Wing Flips Out Over ‘Hidden’ Obama Interview That Was Never ‘Hidden From The Public’
Think Progress — Yesterday, a YouTube user named NakedEmperorNews uploaded an audio clip of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) telling the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial board in January 2008 that under his cap and trade plan, “if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can,” but “it will bankrupt them.” The right-wing blog Newsbusters lactched onto the audio, falsely claiming it had been “been hidden from the public” and “kept under wraps until this time.” Newsbusters’ report was quickly picked up by the Drudge Report and the conservative blogosphere began crying foul that ...

Romney: McCain’s Cap And Trade Plan Would ‘Just Kill Jobs’ In The U.S.
Think Progress — Today, the right wing — enthusiastically joined by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) — attacked Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for advocating in a January interview a cap and trade plan that would mandate new coal plants to be built with carbon capture technology. McCain said he wanted to control emissions, but insisted, “I’m not going to let our coal industry go bankrupt.” Palin said Obama’s has been “talking about bankrupting the coal industry,” and pledged, “John McCain and I, we will not let that happen to the coal industry.” Now former ...

Obama, Coal & looming disaster
The Anchoress — How does this lady think Obama is going to pay for her gasoline and her mortgage, and whatever else, when he is planning to bankrupt industries and make energy costs “skyrocket,” thus burdening business and consumers, raising unemployment and - necessarily - lowering tax revenues? No, we can’t talk enough about how destructive Barack Obama’s energy plans will be for the country. Neo-neocon looks at Obama’s lump of coal and sounds an alarm: Another blast from ...

About "cap and trade"
QandO — The Heritage Foundation reminds us that the cap and trade system that Europe instituted has been an abysmal failure: One need only look to Europe to see both why America still needs coal, and how cap-and-trade policies are doomed for failure. The European Union’s cap-and-trade program is in complete collapse as much of Eastern Europe, Italy, and Germany are all demanding exemptions from their carbon limits. Not only has the EU’s cap-and-trade failed to actually reduce carbon emissions, but even if the reductions were met, they would have no impact on world temperatures. Meanwhile, Germany plans to build 27 coal-fired plants by 2020. Italy ...

Gore’s 5 step plan for bankruptcy
QandO — He sees and opening and he’s bound and determined to push his agenda. Damn bankruptcy, full speed ahead! That opening, of course, is a Democrat in the Oval Office with a Democratic legislature to rubber stamp Al’s initiative. So Al begins the propaganda campaign with an op-ed in the NYT: The world authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after 20 years of detailed study and four unanimous reports, now says that the evidence is “unequivocal.” To those who are still tempted to dismiss the increasingly urgent alarms from scientists around the world, ignore the melting of the north ...

Hooligan Mob to Target Coal Plant
Moonbattery — Totalitarian regimes often require ostensibly independent action. An example would be the maniacal students who went wild during China's Cultural Revolution, inflicting violence on those deemed insufficiently fanatical in their devotion to communism. Similar tactics will be required to push through the global warming agenda, which will entail radically restricting our liberty and lowering our standard of living in the name of a "crisis" that does not exist. Environmentalist demagogue Al Gore has been trying to egg on the sort of moonbat hooligans who riot at WTO conferences to attack power plants that use one of our most precious yet abundant resources, coal. His ...

About That Restoring Respect Around the World Thing
California Conservative — Then-Sen. Obama promised that he’d restore America’s image around the world if elected. That’s hit a bump in the road: The president of the European Union slammed President Barack Obama’s plans to have the U.S. spend its way out of recession as “a road to hell,” underscoring European differences with Washington ahead of a crucial summit next week on fixing the world economy. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency, told the European Parliament on Wednesday that Obama’s massive stimulus package and banking bailout ...

Obama Warned Us: Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates to Skyrocket & Will Bankrupt the Coal Industry (Video)
Gateway Pundit — BARACK OBAMA ANNOUNCED IN 2008 THAT HIS CAP & TRADE LEGISLATION WOULD CAUSE ELECTRICITY RATES TO SKYROCKET AND WOULD BANKRUPT THE COAL INDUSTRY Barack Obama admitted last year that cap and trade legislation would cause electricity prices to skyrocket in an interview with The San Francisco Chronicle: "Under my plan of a cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Businesses would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that cost onto consumers." Cap and trade will likely cost $700 to $1,400 dollars per US family per ...

On Cap And Trade, What About The 95% Of Americans Who Weren’t Supposed To Get A Tax Hike?
Say Anything — While campaigning, Obama promised tax cuts for “95% of Americans.”  Shortly after being elected President, Obama noisily promised that nobody in America making under $250,000/year would pay a dime more in federal taxes. But now Obama is backing a cap and trade carbon tax, and that tax just passed the House.  If the Senate passes it as well (click here to contact your Senators and tell them it shouldn’t) businesses across the nation would have to purchase permission from the government to emit carbon. And since pretty much all businesses emit carbon, that amounts to a tax on just about every business in America. Now, ...

Obama Says Cap-&-Trade Will Kill Coal Industry & Cause Energy Costs to Skyrocket... Urges Senate to Pass Bill
Gateway Pundit — Barack Obama admitted last year, "Under my plan of a cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." (Video) Obama also promised last year that cap and trade would bankrupt the coal industry. (Video) Today, Barack Obama urged the US Senate not to believe the misinformation and pass cap and trade legislation. The AP reported: "My call to every senator, as well as to every American, is this," he said. "We cannot be afraid of the future. And we must not be prisoners of the past. Don't believe the misinformation out there that ...

Just How A Pelosi Run Congress Should Work….Send A Cap & Tax Bill That Doesn’t Exist Up For A Vote
Flopping Aces — You recall that massive new tax passed yesterday? The one where 8 Republicans stabbed their constituents in the heart and voted to pass it…… You remember now don’t you? Well, those who voted on it could not remember much seeing as how it DOESN’T EXIST: Nobody could have read the bill the House passed last night because there is no bill. There apparently wasn’t time to pull together a finished product that accounted for the hundreds of pages of amendments because of Pelosi’s headlong rush to slam this lunacy through before anybody had a chance to learn what was actually in it. So there is no ...