Sunday, November 2, 2008

Youtube video in which Obama speaks, rather gleefully, apparently, about imposing bankrupting the coal industry.

Of course, The One doesn't seem to consider the fact that the US has a great deal of coal reserves (about 28% of the world's stores, according to one report), that it generates about 49% of the country's electricity, that there are clean[er] coal technologies that are better for the environment but that don't require throwing the baby out with the bathwater, either, and that people work around it and have jobs in plants and mines and things which they kind of need (jobs are, after all, a nice thing to have) . That's interesting.

Oh, well. I guess forcing out thousands of jobs and trying to eliminate an important source of power for the country will be a nice CHANGE(TM), won't it?