It’s Getting Hot In Here

Now, I knew that the Americans for Balanced Energy Choices organization was full off… coal, but I never would have thought that they would be so proud of it, that they put up a map to show how much of our electricity comes from the nasty black rock:

http://www.americaspower.org/The-Facts

There must be some fun action that we can start based on their arrogance!

Fun fact, they claim that clean coal is clean because of sequestration. They also claim that coal is good because it is cheap. Sequestration, even if it was possible, it would be extremely expensive, therefore increasing the price of coal…. aren’t they somewhat inconsistent?

Senator Obama spoke yesterday as the Texas and Ohio primary results were coming in. In the midst of the usual inspirational plea to change America, he said something that caught my attention (video: 00:25 seconds in):

We believe that a child born tonight should have the same chances whether she arrives in the barrios of San Antonio or the suburbs of St. Louis, on the streets of Chicago or the hills of Appalachia.

In a presidential primary where climate change is barely even acknowledged, and our nemeses King Coal and Big Oil buy blocks of commercial time at every political event, I was surprised to hear Obama mention Appalachia. What was more surprising is Obama’s insistence on our need for ‘clean coal’, and eventually, of developing the economic and environmental scam called coal-to-liquid fuel.

The only blocks in Texas that consistently voted for Obama were African Americans and youth, and this is very ironic. African Americans are disproportionately affected by pollution from coal fired power and climate change. Similarly, youth will be the ones that will have to deal with the incompetence of our predecessor. It is about time that we tell our candidate, the one that we are elevating to the nomination, that he needs to reshape his energy platform to reflect his people, the people of the future.