From the press in Africa...

US President George W. Bush wants Tehran to halt "at once" any Iranian support for fighters targeting US-led forces in Iraq, the White House said in a statement Tuesday.

US President George W. Bush warned Tuesday that letting Iran acquire atomic weapons risked putting the Middle East "under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust."

Now I'm getting spooked to the point of distraction.

Coal is unacceptable to anyone that has done just a little bit of research. I feel like all the enviromental groups need to pull to together to fight King Coal. There should not be any new coal and the old plants/mines should be phased out.

Anybody want to help Mississippi fight King Coal and his merry governor? We'll give you some fried chicken!

This is just plain madness, and way too expensive. CTL is already expensive, add to that carbon sequestration (which isn't even mature technology yet) and it becomes unaffordable. And then it still pumps carbon dioxide through the exhaust pipes of the cars.

"Coal is dirty", "Coal is polluting" etc. will not stick to these people. Simple demands will prove very effective - this is my simple demand:

"If you [the coal industry] can categorically show that energy independence for the USA outweighs the need to dramatically cut greenhouse gas omissions - for this is the choice that wil have to be made - then coal can be the catalyst for energy independence."

The science is clearly against any such call being answered so, in truth, it is just down to the American people to say clearly that they value the future of their planet more than jingoistic, short-sided attitudes over where the energy we so greedily suck is coming from.

This should be taken as a conscious attack on those millions of people who have been so easily brainwashed that commercial interests outweigh everything else.

Keith Farnish
www.theearthblog.org

That's a sharp, pointed bit with enough barb to stick under the skin of the free-market rhetoric.  Inasmuch as the conservative public is the most likely to be skeptical of climate change and most likely to support coal (in all its forms) as a path to domestic energy security, the most effective way to reach them may be to emphasize the many levels of subsidies involved.

The Right spent alot of energy demonizing the welfare state.  Let's capitalize on that work, and turn it to our own ends.