On the Obama campaign website, there’s a graphic depicting the president’s “all-of-the-above” energy plan. I’ve captured it to post here to head off the inevitable alterations. According to the page:
President Obama has a real strategy to take control of our energy future and finally reduce our dependence on foreign oil—an all-of-the-above approach to developing all our energy resources.
Notice anything missing?
The Institute for Energy Research says that coal provides 21% of US energy, and nearly half of all our electricity. The United States has 29% of the world’s known coal reserves, enough to last 250 years: We’re rich with the stuff, and we know where it is, and it’s cheap. But coal doesn’t rate even a mention in Obama’s official energy plan? How “real” can his so-called “all-of-the-above” plan be if it leaves out half of our electric generation?
How many Electoral college votes are there in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky?
Don’t forget Ohio. Coal is mined in SE Ohio.
And to be fair, The Whine did say he was going to bankrupt the coal industry.
hot air,
bad math,
intentional lies,
cluelessness,
Solyndra,
strategic petroleum reserve
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14,000,000,000,000%
Never tried simply erasing a large sector of the economy but this is an accurate portrayal as the regime sees it. Reality has become a political construct presented to the people through these proclamations and rubber-stamped by state media. Change is the only law that must be obeyed, so therefore modifying our perception of reality actually counts as progress.
Coal-addicts may complain, but in a second term they can be re-educated in Green Learning Centers and People’s Progress Temples.
The graphic also mysteriously omits the one truly inexhaustible resource: Hot Air.
There are also coal deposits in Texas and Oklahoma.
If we ever got around to taking all the regulatory and union shackles off of domestic manufacturing, we’d also need coal for steel manufacturing. Coal also makes a cheap source of carbon for a lot of exotic materials also. I remember reading about a now defunct plan that would pump steam into underground coal deposits to produce a liquid fuel. One plan involved putting a nuclear power plant over one of the bigger deposits to make the steam for the process. Never happen in today’s anti-energy environment.
Without Coal how will I be able to pay the just as ridiculous as gasoline price for electricity to charge my Volt. Ok I can’t afford a Chevy Volt but if Obama can make up Julia, I can have a pretend to have a Volt.
They also forgot to mention hot air. It’s been powering Washington for years.