Schweitzer's Folly (global warming politics)

American Spectator ^ | 28 Mar 06 | David Holman

[rellimpank]

Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer took George Stephanopoulos for a ride Sunday over Glacier National Park, and not just in a helicopter.

Thanks to his proposal to mine eastern Montana's coal beds and gasify the coal into synthetic fuel, Schweitzer is enjoying steady national press. Consider that he's a newly elected, red-state Democrat, with homespun charm and bolo tie, and you can understand the media's crush.

Pursuing creative, cost effective uses of our natural resources is fine by me, but now the governor's gone too far. He's exploiting the specter of global warming as a justification for his "synfuel" plan.

[Cincinatus]

A very good piece on the fear-mongering, global warming crowd, doing what they do best. Bump!

[neverdem]

What am I missing? They're yapping about global warming from man made greenhouse gases. It seems to me that if you buy that argument, then the last thing that you want is a synfuels program from coal.

[rellimpank]

(global warming politics)
I think that explains it--and I suppose the claim is that the synfuel manufacturing process lessens the overall emission of carbon dioxide--