Obama - 'Nazis Were Right About Oil from Coal'
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Call it an energy independence blitzkrieg, but working men and women will need to work a little harder to give Senator Obama the tax dollars he needs to subsidize big energy:
Call it an energy independence blitzkrieg, but working men and women will need to work a little harder to give Senator Obama the tax dollars he needs to subsidize big energy:
"A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including one presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), is pushing to provide federal loan guarantees, tax breaks and other subsidies to spur the production of fuel from coal.From his website, BarackObama.com, "Barack Obama believes the U.S. must act decisively and creatively to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change." I guess "decisively and creatively" means you call together your top thinkers and shout, "We don't have to reinvent the wheel, people. Let's learn from the Nazis."
But the process of turning coal into a liquid emits carbon dioxide, so much that each gallon of the fuel would create more greenhouse gases than gasoline -- unless the carbon dioxide released in production could be captured and stored.
Coal-to-liquids, or CTL, as the process is known, was developed in the 1920s by German scientists and used by the German military during World War II. It was later used by South Africa when its access to foreign oil was largely cut off in response to its apartheid policies.
Massive amounts of coal are heated at temperatures of 1,000 degrees, with water added to create steam. The coal becomes gasified, is run over a catalyst and transformed into a clear, yellowish-brown liquid that can be used as diesel or jet fuel."
"UC Berkeley scientists concluded that making and using CTL created about twice the amount of greenhouse gases as petroleum."
"Springtime for Exxon and Peabody,
Winter for solar and wind."
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I find this disheartening as well. I know that Illinois is a coal state, and I know politicians play to the home crowd. But wrong is wrong. In "The Audicity of Hope" Senator Obama writes: "Once, while in the Illinois Senate, I listened to a Republican colleague work himself into a lather over a proposed plan to provide school breakfasts to preschoolers. Such a plan, he insisted, would crush their spirit of self-reliance. I had to point out that not too many five-year-olds I knew were self-reliant, but children who spend their formative years too hungry to learn could very well end up being charges of the state."
Well, it seems like children who spend their formative years breathing the diesel fumes that are the end product of this CTL scheme could very well end up with health problems with tragic consequences for everyone. I hope he reconsiders.
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