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Obama’s Real Agenda On Coal Now Clear
Wheeling News Register ^ | 11/3/08 | Editorial Board

Posted on 11/03/2008 8:44:57 AM PST by pissant

A comment made by Sen. Barack Obama in January - revealing his true agenda on coal - is just now coming to light. It shows that Obama favors preventing construction of new coal-fired plants by using air pollution rules to make them prohibitively expensive.

In January, Obama talked with members of the San Francisco Chronicle's editorial board. He discussed his "cap and trade" air pollution proposals. If implemented, they would have the effect of levying stiff fees against plants emitting "greenhouse gases."

Clearly, Obama wants the scale set low on how much greenhouse gas a plant could emit before being forced to buy "credits" allowing it to operate. Here, in his own words, is what Obama told the Chronicle in regard to use of coal: "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 would help explain comments made earlier this fall in Ohio, by Obama's running mate, Sen. Joe Biden. "No coal plants here in America," he emphasized. Obviously, Biden made his comments in the context of Obama's plan to price coal out of the marketplace through use of draconian air pollution rules.

Sen. John McCain has made it clear that he supports clean-coal technology - with no hidden agendas such as those Obama has in mind. As we have stressed repeatedly, McCain's plan should appeal not just to coal-state voters - but to all Americans worried about energy.

(Excerpt) Read more at theintelligencer.net ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: coalgate; larrysinclairslover; obama
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Obama the fraud being exposed....
1 posted on 11/03/2008 8:44:58 AM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

Remember, all politics is local and this will really bite him in PA.


2 posted on 11/03/2008 8:45:59 AM PST by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: pissant

It’s pretty obvious that he wants to take us down to the level of the 3rd world.


3 posted on 11/03/2008 8:46:43 AM PST by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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To: pissant

I pray that this got out in time.


4 posted on 11/03/2008 8:48:01 AM PST by henkster (Lawyers will lead the Marxist revolution, armed with subpoenas...)
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To: truthandlife
What about Illinois ? I think they have a coal institute at SIU dedicated to clean use of Illinois coal. How f’ing mindless can this idiot be ?
5 posted on 11/03/2008 8:51:18 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: pissant
OK, so Obama and the Democrats will limit availability of energy. Who gets the lion's share of this limited energy? To what end? To demonstrate the power of the new socialist order? This should be fun.
6 posted on 11/03/2008 8:53:20 AM PST by oyez (Justa' another high minded lowlife.)
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To: pissant

This will be big in Ohio, PA , VA and West Virginia, if not elsewhere.


7 posted on 11/03/2008 8:53:36 AM PST by Pete
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To: henkster

Don’t worry, this is the modern age, not the age of something having to be on the CBS,ABC,NBC evening news to be true. It has gotten out, and other than those unwashed masses of Obama supporters, this will help put the SS Obama under the waves if it isn’t already.


8 posted on 11/03/2008 8:53:37 AM PST by scottinoc
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To: pissant

One would think that fraud of socialism and communism was exposed long time ago, but still here we are...


9 posted on 11/03/2008 8:55:31 AM PST by alecqss
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To: pissant

This would be a different race today had this surfaced a week ago. If an election can be won in the last 48 hours, I prayin’ this is the iceberg that sinks Obama’s ship of fools.


10 posted on 11/03/2008 8:58:12 AM PST by vortigern (Watch this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZxBX8sz3tO8)
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To: alecqss

The communists strategize as such:

1) he who controls the present, controls the past
2) he who controls the past, controls the future.

Notice what has been done with control of the schools in the hands of communists. Evolution and socialism are the order of the day.


11 posted on 11/03/2008 8:59:38 AM PST by ROTB (GOD sez "You will not envy your neighbors' [anything]." Cut it our with class envy you Communists!)
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To: pissant

I predict by this evening most of Ohio,PA,WV,Va,Kentucky, and all other coal producing states will have heard this. Since 1/2 of electric in this country si produced by coal he is basically telling us that by summer we won’t be able to afford electric. Wonder how amny elderly will die from heat becau hey won’t be able to afford the electric? Or how many will freeze next winter because they can’t afford to pay for the utilites? It truely will be an Obamanation if this happens. VOTE!


12 posted on 11/03/2008 9:13:03 AM PST by chris_bdba
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To: cripplecreek
Funny thing is...if you listen and read his argument...I understand it...IF, that is your agenda. Which we are pretty sure we know....IS his.

IOW...he flat out says he's going to cause LOTS of financial pain to the energy companies...which in turn those companies hike the fees on the population...to FORCE "clean energy".

All of this makes my mind wonder back to these carbon credit companies in Chi-town...and HIS connection to them.

FWIW-

13 posted on 11/03/2008 9:22:00 AM PST by Osage Orange (Obama's heart is blacker than the devil's riding boots...............)
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To: pissant
How many other industries does he intend to bankrupt using the junk science of global warming?
14 posted on 11/03/2008 9:23:12 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Obama ready on day one to bring Kenyan style democracy to America.)
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To: pissant

And remember, Obama wants to apply this standard to EVERY company, not just energy companies.


15 posted on 11/03/2008 9:26:03 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Osage Orange

He plans to reform agriculture too. Says they’re making us fat and producing too many greenhouse gasses.

To see Obama’s future of America, look to Zimbabwe.


16 posted on 11/03/2008 9:27:04 AM PST by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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To: cripplecreek
I have a SIL from Zimbabwe....

She still has a few relatives there...last time I heard.

That country was the "bread-basket of Africa"....and now it's kaput!

17 posted on 11/03/2008 9:30:37 AM PST by Osage Orange (Obama's heart is blacker than the devil's riding boots...............)
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To: pissant

I am posting my same thoughts to these coal threads:
When you destroy energy, you destroy the economy. You spread the poverty to secure the power and make everyone dependent on the government and Papa Dictator’s benevolence.

Obama’s plan will do to energy what Mugabe did to farming. Intentional impoverishment. It is the fast lane path to making a first-world national a third world country and taking away then redistributing rights selectively, ala Chavez in Venezuela.


18 posted on 11/03/2008 9:39:15 AM PST by Puddleglum
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To: pissant
But... but... but....



can't you ignorant Americans understand?
19 posted on 11/03/2008 9:47:17 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: P-Marlowe; pissant

Here it comes.

Keep this article rolling. It’s a good one.

bttt


20 posted on 11/03/2008 9:49:27 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain Pro Deo et Patria)
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