Hilary would not have been much better or worse than BHO on energy policy. There was next to no difference on this subject between the candidates. Both stressed Green Energy. Unfortunately both were much too conciliatory to the Ethanol lobby.

Hopefully BHO and the Democratic Congress can find a way to shift away from coal in way that makes new Green jobs in Coal producing states. In some places, like the state of West Virgina the writings been on the wall for some time, the coal based economy is going away and something else has got to found to replace it.

Coal is at best a Faustian bargain. For cheap power today we foul our own nest tomorrow. And the damage in some cases is both horrific and permanent. Just the damage done to the physical landscape is insult to god’s creation. Both Mountaintop removal and strip mining create vast vistas of permanent ugliness. And the ugliness is more than skin deep, the blasted landscape reflects a blasted ecosystem. Everything is poisoned both figuratively and literally.

Coal is a 19th century technology, it has no place in 21st century. Wind, Solar, Tidal and even Nuclear energy are the way forward. As usual for NQ posters “truthteller” very nome de plume is an oxymoron. What is on offer is propaganda; a non-stop screed against Obama and hagiography of Clinton. No serious examination of the benefits vs the cost of Coal are offered. What is on offer is just another tiered talking point of why it is o.k. to despise Barack Obama because he is the devil incarnate out to screw “real Americans.”

If Obama had had America’s best interests at heat, he would have withdrawn from the primary, supported Clinton and vied for VP so he could gain the experience to be the best President possible when/if his turn came!

IMO the fact he was in such a hurry told me that if we got to know him, he would not get elected!

It’s also the dirtiest planetary energy source going, and the single largest source of dangerous atmospheric pollutants and climate-changing CO2 emissions. Not to mention the environmental devastation left in the wake of it’s mining. Most Americans are completely unaware of the alarming extent of mountain top removal, of the destroyed forests, of the polluted lakes, streams, and rivers, and of the clean-up costs that are being left for somebody else to deal with once mined areas are depleted of their profitable resources.

Then there’s the “clean coal” public relations scam the industry has attempted to foist on the public. The truth of the matter is that there’s no such thing, and there’s no real prospect that there ever will be.

We’ve got the very real prospect of endless environmentally friendly alternative energy within our grasp. Development of the technology and necessary infrastructure would inject billions into our ailing economy, while creating millions of new jobs in the process. It will be an investment that will deal with our immediate economic problems, while simultaneously building something that will open the doors on a future of unlimited possibilities.

The coal industry ought not be given any incentives to continue their efforts to stand in the way of all of that. Nor am I very sympathetic toward efforts to score political points against Barack Obama at the expense of our nation’s long-term future.

Coal isn’t the future of America. It’s the future of China. The Chinese are already getting an unfortunate choking taste of what that sort of future will look and smell like. Give them 20 years. If we’ve switched over to wind and solar energy by then, they’re going to become our technology customers.

We’ll also see just how effectively hostile elements in the Middle East can threaten the West when the supply of petro-dollars dries up.

I kept telling them I was voting hero over zero, now they will experience the zero. Congrats, bots, but I spit on you for taking the rest of us with you!

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/obamas-exelon-ties-ayers-connection/8/

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/barack-and-rahm-heart-exelon/

So far everything is going on schedule and ahead of schedule on Obama’s quest and the Democratic Party intention to destroy our country from within.

Lets have the marching bands play their fanfare.