OBAMA: Plan To Bankrupt Coal Industry
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OBAMA: Plan To Bankrupt Coal Industry
| Sun, 11-02-2008 - 1:57pm |
Hidden Audio: Obama Tells SF Chronicle He Will Bankrupt Coal Industry
By P.J. Gladnick (Bio | Archive)
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.)
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):

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News Flash. With few exceptions, the vast majority of us are using more energy than we NEED. Or maybe you define "need" as many do, confusing the word with "want". Another news flash--most of the technology we currently use was considered risky, futuristic, and impossible at its inception.
Maybe you weren't around in the 70's when we were hit with the first Arab oil embargo. Maybe you didn't see the plethora of incentives which were given to the alternative energy source sectors. Maybe you didn't watch as Reagan basically undercut those incentives and the development of new technology by pursuing domestic and foreign policies to ensure cheap fossil fuel sources. Maybe it didn't matter to you that a war was "pre-emptively" and poorly waged to maintain that same cheap and easy access to Middle East oil. Maybe you think that coal energy is "clean" and the poles aren't melting due to global warming. Maybe ostriches truly do believe that burying their heads in the sand will make a predator go away.
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Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.
Facts stifle the will, hobble conviction.
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Ignorance is Nature's most abundant fuel for decision making.
>>> News Flash. With few exceptions, the vast majority of us are using more energy than we NEED. Or maybe you define "need" as many do, confusing the word with "want".
Aah...no need to tell us who you're supporting for President. You seem to share Obama's amazing ability to know how other people should live their lives and spend their money. It's great to have folks like Barry around to hold our hand. (where's my "eye roll" icon?)
>>> Another news flash--most of the technology we currently use was considered risky, futuristic, and impossible at its inception.
Which is why most of us didn't use it until it was not considered risky, futuristic and impossible at it's inception. LOL! Most of us also didn't use it until it worked.
>>> Maybe you weren't around in the 70's when we were hit with the first Arab oil embargo. Maybe you didn't see the plethora of incentives which were given to the alternative energy source sectors.
Wow...REALLY? I guess that explains all of the nifty solar powered homes and flying cars filling the skies. (darn, I really do need an "eye roll" icon!)
>>> Maybe you didn't watch as Reagan basically undercut those incentives and the development of new technology by pursuing domestic and foreign policies to ensure cheap fossil fuel sources.
You mean Reagan was a realist, and not some pie-in-the-sky wack-job liberal who lived in a fantasy world of promises and hope? LOL! The government didn't subsidize Ford...or MicroSoft...or any of the other clever inventions that have shaped our world...wait, I take that back, I did see a commercial that said memory foam was developed by NASA.
>>> Maybe it didn't matter to you that a war was "pre-emptively" and poorly waged to maintain that same cheap and easy access to Middle East oil.
I've heard the fringe-dwellers try to make that argument...but the strange thing is that we don't get much of our oil from the middle east and none from Iraq...which kind of blows your allegation out of the water.
>>> Maybe you think that coal energy is "clean" and the poles aren't melting due to global warming.
Well, the fact that the temperature isn't rising could be a clue, but then you seem to think we're swimming in Iraqi oil and were suckered in by cheap slogans of "hope and change."
>>> Maybe ostriches truly do believe that burying their heads in the sand will make a predator go away.
That seems to be the solution found by many, many liberals.
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So you're opposed to the development of electric cars?
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