Comments on: Obama: You Can’t Fight Global Warming with Coal

By: coalminer5539

coalminer5539 — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:16 +0000

Coal produces 51% of americas energy. And with all the unemployment u fucking people thinks its a good idea to shut them down. Hundreds of thousands of people will b out of work including me and most of my family. So while u tree hugging assholes r flipping ur light switches and sitting in ur air conditioning I’m underground with thousands of other employees making that possible.

By: Sean O

Sean O — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:19:17 +0000

Great article. I enjoyed reading it. I think we need to know what our candidates stand for on the issues as well so I created a site to track presidential candidates and the first article is always the current scorecard of their political stances. Check it out. http://www.candidatepositions.com

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:02:16 +0000

Obama has changed his mind. Check this out:

http://www.heatison.org/index.php/content/blog_entry/obama_addresses_issue_of_liquid_coal/

Give the guy some credit. Coming out against Big Coal is a pretty courageous thing for a senator from a coal state like Illinois to do.

By: R Margolis

R Margolis — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:12:37 +0000

In one of Gwynne Dyer’s books, he discusses the switch from horse cavalry to guns. He included a diagram from a centuries old book claiming to show how a knight could defeat a musketeer. I honestly do not know which technologies will fully make a carbon free future (e.g., solar/wind with superconduction storage, pebble bed reactors, carbon sequestration, etc.), however energy transitions have always been difficult. Perhaps once the public knows what kind of life they want, that will help decide which manner we get rid of the carbon.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:59:23 +0000

Though Edwards is the candidate with the worst environmental record (37%LCV, 2003) Obama’s record on peace and the environment is terrible. Obama also voted to fund the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Dumpsite and for a bill that included nuclear bunker busters. His energy plan includes both nuclear power (ala Chernobyl and Three Mile Island) and coal (a dangerous process that puts mercury, lead and cyanide into the air people breath. I’m tired of candidates who pretend to be the opposite of what they are. I’m voting for Kucinich. Anyone who isn’t voting for Kucinich isn’t an environmentalist.

By: Margo Landry

Margo Landry — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:50:10 +0000

This is a nightmare! Big coal has so much money they can buy themselves even more even though they are ruining our planet.

By: Thomas Blakeslee

Thomas Blakeslee — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:43:27 +0000

I am diappointed to see your name on a terrible bill which will greatly worsen the climate change problem by doubling the CO2 emissions of cars and trucks. Better to spend a billion dollars on developing batteries that will make electric cars practical or developing enhanced geothermal energy. This is the power politics of big coal at it’s worst! Shame!

By: Carlos Rymer

Carlos Rymer — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:23:34 +0000

That’s right. We shouldn’t support a candidate that wants to keep burning the worst of all fuels. Regardless of his merits, coal will simply not do it.