Energy, the Environment, and Politics As Usual

The administration is getting desperate.First they turn the pet pit bulls at the EPA loose on the coal industry in an attempt to shut down coal fired power plants, mostly in red states, then to their horror, they nearly lose a primary to an incarcerated felon in Texas in a coal state.

As a result, their campaign website now lists "clean coal" as an acceptable approach to providing energy to the country, right up there with nuclear, oil, as long as it's not drilled here, gas, as long as it's not fracked here, and 4 different flavors of unicorn farts.

Coal wasn't on that chart in any form at all before that W.Va primary.

Going to the campaign site and clicking on the selections doesn't produce any information suggesting that some kind of plan might be under consideration either.

In this case, adding support for clean coal was easy enough since the biggest deposit of the stuff is off limits to mining, and the second largest deposit is controlled by an Indonesian who is a big contributor to the Dems. The coal in question is in Utah, not W. Va, so all you coal-digging rednecks* can forget about being employed in Obama's second term.

*What I've been able to determine about my ancestry suggests that there are a number of these folks in that part of the country who are related to me. Birds of a feather, and all that. Hi there, cousins.