Last January, Barack Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle that he will bankrupt the coal industry. I guess that means, just say no to coal. Read about it below and see the video of his interview.
Barack Obama on Coal Industry
It looks like it might get really cold under an Obama Presidency. He’s told us that he will mandate how warm we can keep our houses in the winter and that he will impose strict fees for people who use too much electricity, gas, etc. He’ll make energy prices skyrocket. Now we find out that he has an ‘aggressive plan’ to bankrupt the coal industry. I wonder if he’ll let us cut down trees for firewood?
The visual of the entire U.S. coal mining industry being put out of work is pretty mind boggling.
You scoff at this? Its words from his own mouth. On January 17, 2008, in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle (SF Gate) he said that he would use aggressive measures to ensure that the coal mining industry stopped polluting.
Let me sort of describe my overall policy.
What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there.
I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.
That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.
The only thing I’ve said with respect to coal, I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.
So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.
It’s just that it will bankrupt them.
Right now, coal produces 49% of the United States electrical power. Barack Obama says in this interview that we need to ‘take coal off the table’. But he assures coal miners and unions that he’s on their side.
For reasons we can only imagine, the San Francisco Chronicles didn’t mention his diabolical plan for the coal industry in their article from this interview.
This interview was in San Francisco, the same place he talked about Pennsylvanians bitterly clinging to their Bibles and guns. Now he’s talking about destroying Pennsyvlania’s biggest industry. What does he have against Pennsylvania? Did Pennsylvanians offend him in another life?
Are you listening Pennsylvania? Are you hearing him Ohio, Virginia, Colorado and Indiana? He’s planning on putting you out of business. Bet he won’t repeat those remarks in any of those states.
I think we all better learn how to field dress caribou so we make warm coats for the winter. Or better yet, lets all send Obama a lump of coal for Christmas.
Obama on Coal Industry - Video
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Thats OK.
He’s gonna give em all green jobs.
They’ll all be sitting around pickin their noses.
Green jobs are a farce and a red herring as most of these positions are already filled today. The techs are there and trained already.
We know what the alternative fuels are already, production needs to brought to level thats applicable to our system and cost efficient.
I’ve mentioned before how environmentalism is just another conduit for socialism and method of class warfare.
No one is listening. They’re all seeing the economy and taxes at he end of the tunnel as the only method that can usher in socialism and not realizing that our schools, unionization and environmentalism can be just as effective
November 2nd, 2008 at 3:15 pm
very true micky. He’ll also give them jobs in the new Civilian National Security Force! HOOAH!! Oh wait, can we still say HOOAH?
November 2nd, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Barry, you are so disingenuous, such a fake. I remember at one of the debates he was talking about clean coal. He is so craftful at hiding what he is really going to do. He is hiding his real agenda for this country, and I am just pissed off. I am amazed that people can’t see through this guy’s B.S. He is every bit as good as Bill Clinton was at seducing the American people. At least Bill was somewhat of a moderate. Now we have the charm of Bill Clinton with the politics of Dennis Kusinich. Scary.
November 2nd, 2008 at 4:56 pm
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November 2nd, 2008 at 7:50 pm
I would only say….
I would not recommend Grant Park the night of the election to any one.
When this thing goes south… 1 million wrapped around a loosing candidate.
people will die.
November 2nd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
let me make it clear.. upset Obama fans (if he looses) will make it not safe to be part of that gathering.
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
PUMA + COALGATE = OBAMA RIP
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
More people will become dependant on government if energy mandates are imposed.
Energy costs will skyrocket and ordinary folks will need entitlements in order to recieve or pay for energy, thus guaranteeing their vote in the next election.
Much like the energy taxes imposed by the French
The high energy taxes worked exactly as the environmentalists planned, they have reduced energy consumption. Seeking ways to cut their electric bills, French citizens realized that air conditioners consume more energy than almost any other household appliance. For the poor and the elderly, especially, air conditioning simply became unaffordable. So, by the millions, they decided to do without the A/C that environmental taxes made so expensive. Air conditioning, so taken for grantite in America, became in France an indulgence of the well to do. As Chantal de Singly, director of the Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris, put it in Le Monde (August 19, 2003), the heat wave revealed two classes of French citizens: “the France of the air conditioned versus the France of the overheated.?
So, to address the purely hypothetical risks of possible future global temperature increases that might average a few piddling degrees, the green freaks imposed energy taxes that made it impossible for many of its most vulnerable citizens to protect themselves against the foreseeable and preventable impact of a summer heat wave.
However, in the green campaign against energy consumption, the fatalities caused by French environmentalists may not compare to what could happen if Americas coal producers are shut down due to unrealistic fines on emission.
Much the same could happen during the winter here in America unless of course Hugo Chavez gets real generous, no doubt Obama may welcome his assistance in the matter and call it a kumbaya moment for us all to reflect on as something the Bush administration could never accomplish.
People will make sacrifices in life quality in order to afford heating costs, The costs for most necessities are not as flexible as grocery budgets, diets will change first.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
More people will become dependant on government if energy mandates are imposed.
I think that would be the goal of this whole thing. Its all about power and control of the people.
Kinda like Russia’s Putin attempting to get control of the pipelines into Western Europe.
November 3rd, 2008 at 2:01 am
as guido the killer pimp says:
“HUSSEIN, you look like a smart kid. i’m going to tell you something i’m sure you’ll understand. you’re having fun now, right? right, HUSSEIN? the time of your life.
in a sluggish economy, never. ever! fk with another man’s livelihood.
now, if you’re smart, and i hope you are, you’re not gonna make me come back here.?
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:50 am
Palin Hammers Obama on Bankrupting Coal Industry…
As you have probably heard, Presidential Candidate Barack Obama did an interview with the San Francisco Chronicles last January saying that he would bankrupt the coal industry with raising the regulations on the industry to the point that they would be…
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:12 am
Yea Beth.
What better way to influence a society than to control the energy ?
Environmental and global warming issues will be as much if not more of a tool for instituting controls on us than taxation, healthcare.
In short, environmental iniatives can lead right to loss of control of private property.
Once we’ve hit that point it gets ery scary
This whole economic mess has caused people to take their eyes off some very important issues.
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:13 am
Guys,
This all talk for the tree huggers. Obama is Slick Willie II in that he tells people what they want to hear. If elected, he will tell us that he tried on this issue and that issue, but it was just to hard or that the republicans in congress blocked it.
He will never get this or the gun issue off the ground. Why the left can’t see this guy is loopy. Even Hillary and Bill know it. I hate it when I have to agree with the Clinton’s.
November 4th, 2008 at 10:55 am
hahaha who cares white people like the cold anyway. they’ll be iight
November 4th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
obama man,
How does the power grid where you live know whether the people it is going to a white person or a black person.
Coal is cheap and clean.
Don’t you feel sick at you stomach seeing race in every area of your life. What a waste.
November 8th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
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June 15th, 2009 at 5:52 am
No Surprise that GM had to sink like the Titanic.. Just the pain and hard work of 300 Million Taxpayers going down the drain.. Whose responsible for that?
June 25th, 2009 at 9:31 am
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