Yes...in a sense of speaking!
Posted on 06/25/2013 8:06:40 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Daniel P. Schrag, a White House climate adviser and director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, tells the New York Times "a war on coal is exactly what's needed." Later today, President Obama will give a major "climate change" address at Georgetown University.
“Everybody is waiting for action,” Schrag tells the paper. “The one thing the president really needs to do now is to begin the process of shutting down the conventional coal plants. Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they’re having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what’s needed.”
Obama's speech today is expected to offer "a sweeping plan to address climate change on Tuesday, setting ambitious goals and timetables for a series of executive actions to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and prepare the nation for the ravages of a warming planet," according to the Times.
Here's the full context of Schrag's quotation:
Daniel P. Schrag, a geochemist who is the head of Harvard University’s Center for the Environment and a member of a presidential science panel that has helped advise the White House on climate change, said he hoped the presidential speech would mark a turning point in the national debate on climate change. “Everybody is waiting for action,” he said. “The one thing the president really needs to do now is to begin the process of shutting down the conventional coal plants. Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they’re having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what’s needed.”
Just a warm up for the coming war against fracking, offshore oil drilling, pipelines, and nuclear energy. The goal is to restrict the supply of energy so the government can justify rationing and redistribution. Free electric power and fuel oil for the “poor”. Restrictions on power consumption and motor fuel purchases (except plug in electric) for the rest of us.
The more expensive they can artificially make energy, the sooner all the peasants will starve, leaving them the Walden paradise they deserve.
The whole point is to make energy unaffordable for the “commoner”,
and then the “elite” can subsidize whomever is in their favor such that only their supporters get to use energy.
Just typical leftist SOP.
Yes...in a sense of speaking!
EPA out-of-control and headed your way.
Because it’s black?
He can’t get away with having people go without electricity. So he will replace coal with....?
Nat gas, I hope.
We are dying of a thousand cuts and Obama keeps wielding the knife.
I guess Schrag “forgot” all about the abnormally high tides predicted by the Mayans for our year 2012. That was an effect of all the planets being “in alignment”.
But, as Raum said: “Never let a “crisis” go to waste!”
And as Mann answered: “Even if you have to invent the “crisis”....
Obviously, the nobama commies hate Free Americans and Free America. Can’t someone imprison these undermining idiots?
If one was stupid enough enough to by one of those Chevy Volts - guess what?
Your driving cost are going up! Double sucker.
Dear Miners, How are those votes working out for ya?
“I think Congress needs to step in with laws to protect industry from an out of control executive branch.”
Why? The majority of them voted for their own execution. Now they get to reap their desired whirlwind.
Sadly, we all get to pay for it....
It is easy to see how the data used to form the graph can be interpreted in slightly different ways... (manipulated). However it is fairly obvious that even the data from the CRU of all places confirms no statistically significant global warming since 1997... nearly 16 years ago.
Man, they must have a lot on boner and mcconnell and mccain, et al. What gives obama the right to just willy nilly shut down coal plants?
Ohio, West Virginia, see what voter fraud does for you?
What are they going to power all those Government Motors VOLTs with?
Don’t forget Pennsylvania! The state actually went for Obeyme in 2012.
Bump
We need a war on Eco-lunatics.
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