Posted on 04/21/2009 4:07:25 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
"Clean coal is a dirty lie," says environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who calls President Barack Obama and other politicians who commit taxpayer money to develop it "indentured servants" of the coal industry.
Despite a series of expensive false starts and failures, President Obama proposed $3.4 billion in stimulus legislation to fund continued research on "clean coal" projects.
"Clean coal is like healthy cigarettes, it does not exist," says former Vice President Al Gore.
The coal industry has been running a multi-million dollar advertising blitz to promote the theory that coal can be made clean, using one of Obama's campaign speeches in its television commercials.
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Robert and Al should go live somewhere in wigwams. Then let us know how that works out, ok?
“indentured servants”
OK now the obligatory . . . can you imagine if a Republican said that?
Yeah, why waste all the effort on cleaning up coal anyway. Just burn it as is. Since the real dirty lie is global warming.
Obama promised to bankrupt the coal industry...
necessarily skyrocketing energy prices are part of his plan
They don’t want to live in wigwams; they want the rest of us to live in wigwams.
they made a point of stating global warming as fact too.
“That’s RACIST!!!”
Jr. has been a total write off his whole life. I didn’t think much more of his daddy.
Seriously, can you listen to Little Bob without picturing Kate Hepburn in “On Golden Pond?”
He should have said “Barry, don’t be such an old poop...”
RFK Jr, needs to pull his head out of his ass and the environmentalists asses. If coal is not good enough and nuclear is too dangerous, why does Framnce use both, especially the latter. Coal CAN be burned cleanly, ask the ChiComms, they do it and the enviro-nuts aren’t complaining about them doing it.
Exactly, which is precisely why the blowhards themselves should be living in them.
>>Since the real dirty lie is global warming. <<
We’re going to need some global warming if the Sunspots don’t come back.
It’s always fun when the idiots turn on each other...pass the popcorn.
Coal is a very flexible fuel and we don't have to buy it outside the country.
“indentured servant” ???
Well, thank God he didn’t call him a slave!
Broken clock...
Man that’s so funny. Clearly the proper word to use is “slave”, but he had to contort it to “indentured servant” for PC purposes.
Of course. But stating it and reality are two different things. One of the best posts was that pdf on raw temp. data. 89% surface stations with errors, 11% factual, but that's before they enter it into their cooked computer models.
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