[OneWingedShark]

A prudent government would focus research on clean coal technology.

I can't remember the last time our government was accused of being prudent.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[I can’t remember the last time our government was accused of being prudent.]

On that subject, the manufacturing sector of Western Europe used to build their power plants to burn both oil or coal, whichever was cheaper at the time. This had a regulating effect on both fuels.