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Obama Called Out for Comments About Bankrupting Coal Fired Power Plants

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Posted by Fred 2008-11-03 07:48|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 "the point Obama is making is that we need a transition from coal burning power plants built with old technology to plants built with advanced technologies."

Just not nuclear or natural gas. But other than that, he's cool with it.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-11-03 09:11|| 2008-11-03 09:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Hawaii is a coal producing state - I had no idea.

You know, for someone who is supposed to be so smart and articulate we sure have got a lot of these day-after clarification statements from his campaign managers, especially after his visits to San Francisco. How anyone can automatically believe anything which comes out of his mouth is the bigger mystery - you may agree with it initially but inevitably he backtracks.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-11-03 09:29|| 2008-11-03 09:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Believe what he says when he's not being scripted, i.e. when he thinks he's in a safe crowd of fellow believers.

Believe what he says in San Francisco and when Joe the Plumber catches him off guard.

Posted by lotp 2008-11-03 09:34|| 2008-11-03 09:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Once again, what I said is not what you heard me say...

Posted by tu3031 2008-11-03 09:41|| 2008-11-03 09:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Boy, Hillary looking better and better.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-11-03 09:57|| 2008-11-03 09:57|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm impressed as hell that the McCain campaign held this to Sunday. If I were the candidate I would have had it out there in September or early October, and its effect would be gone now.

McCain really believes in this "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" ...

Posted by Steve White 2008-11-03 10:01|| 2008-11-03 10:01|| Front Page Top

#7 If McCain wins, it is only because the chosen One shot himself in the foot so often the MSM could no longer cover up the blood.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-11-03 10:02|| 2008-11-03 10:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Hawai'i has one small coal-fired plant for a sugar mill that is being converted to bio-mass. He is an uneducated idiot when it comes to energy. We have the cleanest coal burning power technology in the world and that includes that bastion of fluidized bed technology - Finland. We are now able to incrementally upsize coal-gasification combined cycle to baseload numbers like 750MW. We can build super critical coal fired boilers in the 1250 to 1350 MW range with scrubbers that make natural gas more attractive for polymers than power. The man and his advisors are really dangerous. I have forgot more about designing and building power plants than he will ever know.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2008-11-03 10:27|| 2008-11-03 10:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Top coal-producing states

State 2005 production (short tons)
Wyoming 404,319
West Virginia 153,650
Kentucky 119,734
Pennsylvania 67,494
Texas 45,939
Montana 40,354
Colorado 38,510
Indiana 34,457
Illinois 32,014
North Dakota 29,956
Virginia 27,743

Well, thank God none of 'em are important swing states, right, Barack????

(On a side note....if he does get in, in spite of this, I personally will have no sympathy for any coal industry personnel who are out on their butts who voted for Obama. I'll be too damn busy scrounging up cornstalks to burn for heat in the winter.)

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-11-03 10:35|| 2008-11-03 10:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Blondie:

Cornstalk burning will violate the low-carbon fuel standards of the Obama regime and will be strictly prohibited. Anyone found burning, considering the burning or discussing the burning of cornstalks will be reported to the Obama Civilian Assistance Corps (CAC).

"You can burn cornstalks if you want to, but we'll tax you out of your house." anon

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-03 11:05|| 2008-11-03 11:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Anyone found burning, considering the burning or discussing the burning of cornstalks will be reported to the Obama Civilian Assistance Corps (CAC).

Ironically, the punishment for this environmental heresy will be burning at the stake.

Posted by SteveS 2008-11-03 11:19|| 2008-11-03 11:19|| Front Page Top

#12 The scary thing is that youse guys are probably right.

I don't even wanna think about the consequences for burning Obama signs for fuel, then.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-11-03 11:32|| 2008-11-03 11:32|| Front Page Top

#13 Steve White: Are you serious?

Do you think McCain was sitting on this bombshell?

My understanding is that an unknown blogger found the tape on the SF Chronicle's website, lisstened to the audio, and then put the word out on The One's intent to bankrupt the coal industry.

I have been given to understand that McCain's "opposition research team" dropped the ball on this bombshell.

Recall: weeks ago Joe Biden said that no new coal plants would be built in the USA. There was a brief hue and cry. The One came out and said: no...you're taking what Joe said out of context....blah...blah...blah...

Actually, Joe Biden was telling the truth when he spoke. The One covered his ass by saying otherwise.

THAT would have been the time to drop the SF Chronicle qoute on Barack. McCain didn't. Because he didn't have it.

Why not? Because his reasech people didn't know it existed. They should have, but they didn't.

McCain has run a terrible campaign on so many levels and now some of the "insiders" want to blame his pick of Sarah (which is the only good thing he has done in months) as an excuse for failure.

Vote. Vote Palin. Vote against socialism.

Posted by MarkZ 2008-11-03 12:13|| 2008-11-03 12:13|| Front Page Top

#14 Those insiders are mostly Mitt Romney people from what I hear. They want to preserve his chances for 2012.

Posted by lotp 2008-11-03 13:16|| 2008-11-03 13:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Blondie, think you may have dropped a zero or 2.

Posted by .5MT 2008-11-03 14:18|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2008-11-03 14:18|| Front Page Top

#16 As a not proud resident of Massaholia I suffered through Romney's governorship.

As best I could tell he's a pander bear supreme in the mode of the old Rockefeller Repus. Despite his talk he had no walk.

The problem in judging him is that the overwhelming Democrap / loony left here distorts anything. It's like trying to judge his appearance when viewed in a fun-house mirror.

Posted by AlanC 2008-11-03 16:14|| 2008-11-03 16:14|| Front Page Top

#17 .5MT, where'd I do that? Got those stats from Platts. I know they don't match up exactly with Kentucky Educational Television, but the states listed are the same.

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2008-11-03 18:34|| 2008-11-03 18:34|| Front Page Top

#18 Blondie, that table should be times thousand tons.

Posted by ed 2008-11-03 19:26|| 2008-11-03 19:26|| Front Page Top

#19 So if the Big O bans coal burning, where in the f*ck are we going to get energy to make the transition off petroleum? 95% of Congress are idiots when you talk about energy. They do not have a clue.

Maybe they will jump on the bandwagon and push a program for vernalization for agriculture, like Stalin's TD Lysenko did to ruin the USSR's agriculture.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2008-11-03 21:40|| 2008-11-03 21:40|| Front Page Top

#20 Push comes to shove, it would be a real educational experience for all the coal fueled power plants to shut down. Then the nation can sweat for the day or 2 while they are brought back on line.

Posted by ed 2008-11-03 21:44|| 2008-11-03 21:44|| Front Page Top

#21 95% of Congress are idiots ~~when you talk about energy~~

fixed for you

Posted by Abu do you love">Abu do you love 2008-11-03 22:12|| 2008-11-03 22:12|| Front Page Top

#22 One question - why did it take so long for this to come out?

It took a blogger.

The press has let us down again.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-11-03 22:59|| 2008-11-03 22:59|| Front Page Top

#23 The press has ~~let us down~~ covered for The Messiah™ and screwed us over again.

Fixed that for ya', OS.

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