HA HA HA HA HA. Boy, that’s funny!!! Obama hasn’t “worked tirelessly” for anything but his own election campaign!

It’s too late for the flip-flopper to try and change his tune now. We know that he and the other extreme leftists want to destroy American’s economy by taking coal away as a viable energy source and leave us to the “tender mercies” of the oil-producing Middle East tyrants.

What the McCain camp is not giving you from the original tape:

Obama: “But this notion of no coal, I think, is an illusion. Because the fact of the matter is is that right now we are getting a lot of our energy from coal. And China is building a coal-powered plant once a week. So what we have to do then is figure out how can we use coal without emitting greenhouse gases and carbon.”

Obama and Biden on Clean Coal: Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology. Carbon capture and storage technologies hold enormous potential to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions as we power our economy with domestically produced and secure energy. As a U.S. Senator, Obama has worked tirelessly to ensure that clean coal technology becomes commercialized. An Obama administration will provide incentives to accelerate private sector investment in commercial scale zero-carbon coal facilities. In order to maximize the speed with which we advance this critical technology, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will instruct DOE to enter into public private partnerships to develop 5 “first-of-a-kind” commercial scale coal-fired plants with carbon capture and sequestration.

Obama Passed An Amendment Supported by Biden To Add $200M For Carbon Capture And Sequestration Technology In Senate’s FY 2008 Budget. Obama was the chief sponsor of an amendment to the 2008 Senate Budget resolution that added $200 million for Function 270 (Energy) for the demonstration and monitoring of carbon capture and sequestration technology by the Department of Energy. [SA 599 to SCR 21, Agreed to by Unanimous Consent, 3/23/07]

Biden Proposed Energy Plan That Would Invest In Technologies To Use Coal More Cleanly. In 2007, Biden proposed an energy plan, “Joe Biden supports more than $50 billion in new incentives for research into: alternative fuel and energy sources, renewable energy technology, nuclear waste management and safety, and carbon capture and sequestration technologies that could allow us to use coal cleanly.” [Biden for President Press Release, 11/20/07]

Source: http://www.whptv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=43762b42-8e1c-4ad9-9a0e-3c63383449fb

The 13-member FutureGen Alliance includes U.S. utilities and coal producers such as American Electric Power Co (AEP.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Peabody Energy (BTU.N: Quote, Profile, Research) along with international miners Anglo American (AAL.L: Quote, Profile, Research), BHP Billiton (BHP.AX: Quote, Profile, Research) (BLT.L: Quote, Profile, Research) and China’s largest coal-based power company, China Huaneng Group (HNP.N: Quote, Profile, Research).

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Can you say Exelon?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/10/16/obama-to-declare-carbon-dioxide-dangerous-pollutant/

http://watthead.blogspot.com/2007/06/senator-obama-yields-to-grassroots.html

“Silly notions” to be sure.

http://www.coalcampmemories.com/coaltree.html

These comments display an ignorance on his part about clean coal. That’s why Biden “gaffed.”

Obama really didn’t know about the technology.

Only someone up on energy, a wonk, such as Hillary or, on this topic, Sarah, would know.

He just took the easy position. Coal is bad.

I don’t, honestly, worry about these stories at this point.

He’s not stupid. He can read. He’ll get up to speed on these issues.

I, therefore, don’t think this is an “gotcha” moment.

But…..it is illustrative of his lack of depth.

Sarah’s lack of depth has potential for development.

Obama’s lack of depth means….he’s on a very high learning curve for a very long period of time.

Is he capable of that?

I am not convinced he is, frankly.

Here’s my own bizarre thinking.

People I’ve known who insist on always being cool, calm, and collected?

They really don’t process fast.

They are slow to change.

By P.J. Gladnick
November 2, 2008 – 07:26 ET

(Please read update about the San Francisco Chronicle neglecting to mention Obama’s willingness to bankrupt the coal industry at bottom of this blog.)

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 has been hidden from the public…until now. Here is the transcript of Obama’s statement about bankrupting the coal industry (emphasis mine):

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 down caps that are being placed, 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.

The only thing I’ve said with respect to coal, I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a (sic) ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.

So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.

It’s just that it will bankrupt them.

Amazing that this statement by Obama about bankrupting the coal industry has been kept under wraps until this time.

UPDATE: NewsBusters’ Tom Blumer has found out that the San Francisco Chronicle story published on January 18 based upon this January 17 interview did not include any mention of Obama’s willingness to bankrupt the coal industry which you can hear on the audio. You can read the story here when you scroll down to the “In His Own Words” section. Way to cover up for The One, SF Chronicle!

—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/11/republicans-to.html