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Virginia is for coal lovers
Remember that whole debate a few weeks ago over whether Joe Biden hearts "clean coal"? Well, here's some photographic evidence, from an Obama-Biden rally in Suffolk, Va., last week.
Images are courtesy of the coal shills themselves, from their "Behind the Plug" blog, where they wrote, "With just nine days left in the campaign, we still don't know who will be running the country, but we know what will: American coal."
Kate Sheppard is Grist’s political reporter.
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Biodiversivist Posted 4:43 am
28 Oct 2008
I'm hoping these guys will have the wisdom and courage to end subsidies and mandates for biofuels (that take food off tables, destroy biodiverse carbon sinks) and get a cap on carbon but I'm not holding my breath.
Transforming a party is better than creating a third party because ...well, because you don't have to come up with a different name!
Both of our parties today undergo continuous transformation. Lincoln's Republican party bore no resemblance to Nixon's, and Nixon's bore little with Reagan's or the Shrub's.
The Democratic party perpetuated a virtual reign of terror in the south against blacks for many decades after the Civil War. Up until about 1930, there was nary an African American who did not vote Republican. The Yellow Dog Democrats (a collection of bible thumping, deeply ignorant, southerners who would vote for a yellow dog if it was Democrat simply because Lincoln was a Republican). That started to change with the civil rights movement and was finally ended for good when the remaining yellow dogs were swayed to vote Republican by televangelists like Pat Robertson and by the Shrub when he was sent south by his daddy to steal Roberts support for the Republican nomination. The Shrub was successful largely thanks to his being freshly religified by AA.
I think it was McCain's game plan to remake the party. Too bad for him his decision to pick Palin for a running mate (a VP he thought he could censor if needed) to placate the old guard proved to be a mistake. It was also proof of his relatively poor decision making skills. I'm assuming here of course that Obama is going to win :
I've talked to a few well-off Republicans who are voting Democratic this year because they are just fed up with the religionists getting their hooks into government.
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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Delay And Deny Posted 10:14 am
28 Oct 2008
The band of blue states arcing from Illinois to Maryland is the belt of coal and corn.
The two most vile and vicious products in America today.
The first pollutes our land and air.
The second pollutes our food supply and water.
Obama loves and supports corn.
Biden loves and supports coal.
Together, the Democrat ticket would contribute far more to pollution and to corruption of the environment and our bodies.
Vote McCain-Palin, The Clean Ticket.
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Zephaniah Posted 2:21 am
29 Oct 2008
In a couple places there has been some success at pumping the CO@ back down underground to help oil get pumped out, but the technology is not developed, and 'clean coal' is a tooth fairy concept at this point.
My hope is that after the election we can get fossil fuel subsidies switched to subsidies for solar, solar thermal, algae, geothermal and wind installation, driving the price for clean energy so low that China would switch to making solar power plants instead of coal plants.
As for the coal mining areas in the US, solar panels or windmills could be part of the reconstruction over mountain tops that have been removed to dig out coal.
A study sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Institute
estimates that "the federal government has provided $725 billion in energy subsidies (including R&D funding and tax breaks) over the last 50 years. The biggest beneficiaries? The oil and gas industry. That's right. Oil and gas got 60% of that $725 billion. Next in line is coal at 13%, followed by hydropower at 11%. Nukes come in at 9%, while renewables got only 6% -- just one tenth of the largess showed on oil and gas."
And this does not count cost of military bases in oil producing countries.
VOTING IS NOT ENOUGH.
Whichever way this election goes, we will need a massive citizen lobby effort to counter the momentum of business as usual and the army of fossil fuel lobbyists that we pay for every time we turn on a light or drive a car or use a hair dryer.
I am hoping that NRDC, UCS, EDF, Wecansolveit, and ??? will help.
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