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Obama and Coal to Liquid Fuel and Nucelar Energy
Obama's enthusiastic support for coal to liquid fuel since he has been and the U.S. Senate and the fact that he is leading beneficiary of the money of big coal in the presidential Democratic Party field(though not of big oil precisely of his stance on coal to liquid fuel) should give anyone with any modicum of concern about global warming or mountain removal pause.
Obama is the only presidential candidate who is a Senator to be an original cosponsor, mostly alongside global warming denying Republican Senators deep in the pocket of big coal though Sen Byrd finally relented under great pressure from big coal interests in his home state of West Virginia.
S. 154 & S. 155, the Coal to Liquid Fuel Energy Act and the Coal to Liquid Fuel Promotion Act would both spend billions of tax payers dollars on subsidizing "developing" the already existing technology to put coal in are fuel tanks and subsidizes necessary infrastructure to put coal in american gas tanks at such a high level and combination of grants, tax incentives and even government guarantee of return on private loans to do these projects that the renewable sustainable and ecologically friendly energy industry in this country would dare dream of recieving in their wildest of dreams.
This, combined with Obama's incredibly enthusiastic support for nuclear energy coming from a state with 30 some nuclear facilities, among the highest concentrations anywhere, and his lack of exposure to any critical analysis of the nuclear industry from much of his current constituency makes him clearly unsuitable for president in terms of anyone serious about environmental concerns.
His ballyhooed programs on global warming are not enough and don't go much further than things Bush has already agreed to support or the strongest carbon emissions standards in the country signed into law by Republican governors in Minnesota and California working in concert with public pressure and Democratically controlled state legislatures.
We must do better than Obama on these issues this election cycle!On Edwards puts the coal issue into the Dem debate posted 1 year, 10 months ago 20 Responses