During the campaign, Obama was worried about losing Pennsylvania and Ohio, so he pretended that he was a big fan of coal for a couple of weeks. As soon as the election was over, he returned to his agenda of bankrupting the coal industry and further wrecking the US economy.
Earlier this year the Obama administration put forward rules that would have effectively banned building new coal plants, unless they utilized carbon capture technology.
“In Kentucky, coal is not just an energy source, it’s a way of life,” reads a letter from 50 Kentucky Republican and Democratic state legislators, urging Obama to reconsider new rules for carbon emissions limits. “In Kentucky alone, the loss would measure in the billions of dollars — both from declines in the industry and what are predicted to be steep increases in energy costs.”
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Guess you should think before you vote.
Jimmy Carter is just thankful to pass the worst president torch on. In my opinion though Bush is passing it on. If it were not for Bush this idiot would not have won.
If the brain-dead that voted for him again had paid attention to what he DID to the coal industry during the first four years, instead of what he SAID during the election, he wouldn’t be there now.
He lied about everything during the election because just about every word that comes out of his mouth is a lie, a deception, a distortion, a half truth, a spin job, an invention.
I think this is really an act of industrial sabotage. It is done both to weaken our own industry and force dependency, and to further Communist Causes. I think coal is targeted because it is a US native fuel source.
Shopping at Walmart earlier this week, I witnessed a man and woman (they looked and sounded Eastern European and in their 50s) use their Link Card http://www.dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?item=30371 to each separately purchase 2-3 junk food items, and get $100 cashback each. I noticed this because their transactions took forever (I thought I was in a short check-out line). The cashier methodically counted out five $20 bills, and recounted, for each person. That’s $200 in free money that should have been used for food. The man was appropriate body weight but the woman was fat.
IL (Madiganistan) is broke. The Federal govt (Obamistan) is broke. Americans get who they voted for.
Look at what they are doing to refineries and the price we all pay. The very foundation of our economy, energy, is being sabotaged and pushing people farther into poverty. These enviro-fanatics are destroying the country.
“This matters because for refineries to stuff ballooning amounts of ethanol into a static gas pool, they must blend it at levels of more than 10%. Since the nation’s auto makers have declared they will void the warranties of cars using gas with more than 10% ethanol, refineries face lawsuits. Most have instead turned to buying federal renewable “credits” to make up for the ethanol they don’t blend.
As demand for these credits skyrockets, so has the price—jumping from a few pennies a gallon last year to close to $1 a gallon today. Oil refiner Valero has said the credits could raise its cost by a stunning $750 million this year, a hit that will be passed on to consumers. PBF Energy just told investors that its disappointing second-quarter earnings were rooted in the mandate, noting that the $200 million it expects to fork over for ethanol credits this year will exceed the salaries and wages that it pays to operate all three of its refineries.” WSJ
That video is priceless, as it is the only time Skeeter ever told the truth.