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- Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:30pm by
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52% of America’s electricity is generated from coal, yet President Obama is seeking to “cripple” the coal industry and put it out of business. In a night dedicated to “standing up for coal,” Glenn Beck interviewed leading industry executive about President Obama’s war on fossil fuels.
One of the panelists perhaps summed it up best when he said the president “is fundamentally transforming America” and that he believes his goal “is to lower our standard of living so the rest of the world can catch up to us.”
As a result, jobs — some 2.15 million by 2010 — are lost, communities are devastated and power is being taken off the grid.
Watch as Beck and the panel dispel commonly held myths and explains the truth about coal.
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poetopoet
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 9:54amThe U.S. Constitution: Article. II. Section.1.5, “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.”:
It is the law, whether anyone believes it or not, with these words “No Person except a natural born Citizen,” and “shall be eligible to the Office of President;” which part of “No Person” and “shall be eligible” do some not understand? Anyone who disbelieves it’s the law, has inferior cognitive skills and is a total progressive demonic democrat idiot Lemming.
Ignoring the law, does not deny the law. Some blissfully attest in iconoclast posts by stating “Democrats Only” they need not apply any law! For at the time of Barry’s “Adoption” he was an Indonesian citizen, he how claims, “at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution” he was half African and half American before his “Adoption”; why only he and they believe exempts him from the law; a flip and a flop at that too, they make quite evident.
Report Post »MiCurmudgeon
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 8:39amWhat ever happened to the 2008 candidate who promised to promote clean coal technology? The technology already exists , it is cheap and we have at least 250 years of coal in this country. Time to fire the liar.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 9:30amMetroLiberals… do not like anything Black… Oil, Coal, Tires… are all Icky;Dirty… so they want Clean Everything!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 10:16amI’m assuming that this is not going to end well, and Obama and his treasonous buddies will indeed destroy the coal industry, so I have started installing the equipment to take my home “off-grid”. It is taking time, and I resent having to spend the money to do it, but it will be necessary, when the electricity rates “necessarily skyrocket” as our beloved Fuhrer promised…….welcome to the Soviet Union West folks….
Report Post »streighttalk
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 6:11pmAs far as I am concerned Oboma and his crowd should be run out of the country for the things they are currently trying to do to our ecomemy. They don‘t have a clue what they are doing to our abilities to even produce energy affordably in this country and I don’t think they even really care since they are well off enough to overcome what they are trying to force on the rest of us.
Report Post »This is why its so very important that the presidentisl canadates and those Republicans running for Congress and the Senate need to pound into peoples heads every chance they get what Obama and his Cronies are attempting to do to us and the probable results so we vote these people out in droves.
God help us if we are stupid enough to vote Obama in for another term. We won’t even know our country when they get through with us in four more years. Anybody But Obama in 2012 And vote to retake the Senate this year as well then flood Washington with e-mails demanding that Washington undoes most of what Obama has done to destroy this great nation since we where stupid enough to have voted hin into office!!!!!
dianna9490
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 8:24amAmericans REALLY need to stand up about this! If they are not hallowering now THEY WILL BE HERE IN THE NEAR FUTURE! This is RIDICULOUS FROM THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION – IT IS TREASON FROM WITHIN! I don’t know about anyone else but I WILL NOT PAY A $1000 ELECTRIC BILL – I WILL SHUT IT OFF AND GO BACK TO COLEMAN LANTERNS, ETC. Someone needs to stop this INSANITY COMING FROM OUR GOVERNMENT! Supposedly according to the constitution 25th Ammendment Section 4 allows our govern to REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE DUE TO INSANITY! HE HAS TO BE INSANE OR HE IS DOING THIS ON PURPOSE TO BE KING! HE IS NOT MY KING NOR WILL HE OR ANYONE ELSE BE THE KING OF AMERICA!
Report Post »Deepdiver58
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 7:06amObama said, “Under my administration, energy prices will necessarily go up”. Joe Biden said, “We will make it impossible for the coal industry to renew their license or get new permits”. Under Obama, deep water drilling permits have dropped in half, shallow water permits take 3 times as long to obtain, no new petroleum refinery permits have been allowed, the Key Stone pipeline has been denied (ask Soros about his investment in a rail system to carry the oil), tax-payer money has been thrown away to support failed, and failing, so-called green projects… the list goes on.
This administration has done everything possible to destroy our economy – and they have been successful at most of their endevours.
Report Post »scndchance
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 9:56amThis is the first step towards our destruction. Next step is to disarm all the citizens of this great nation.
Report Post »Do you want to guess what the third step is???
hangthebastids
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 11:35pm“Under my administration, energy prices will necessarily go up”
Report Post »skyrocket.
Charbet
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 6:46amObama is heavy on the throttle pushing our Beloved USA into a third world status. I hope God can forgive the idiots who voted for him. When your kids and/or grandparents are freezing or starving to death remember, the responsibility for all of this rests on YOUR shoulders.
Report Post »FedUpNow
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 2:24amThese stupid liberal pukes and their Daddy O’Vomit will ruin us all. The daughter of a friend of mine is an Engineer at Babcock and Wilcox Co. who make the smoke stack scrubbers for coal fired plants. She told me they are already removing 95% of all bad particulates. The Divider in Chief has to know this so the real question is “What is his real agenda???” For us on Social Security, increased electric bills along with gasoline and everything else is a major disaster. Way to go O’Vomit and Mooseshell…
Report Post »LoveBringsTruth
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 2:12amleft in the dark by the anti christ. How fitting. Would that be considered irony?
I for one am glad, then I won’t be able to see Michelle or Barack those dirty demons.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:45amLiberals don’t understand where Obama is taking everyone with his energy policy. I can damn well guarantee you, if any Liberal reading this site, talked to former residents of the Eastern Bloc, what it was like to live without decent electrical power, you’d just be sick to your stomachs, at how things could have been that much better, if it were made readily available than it was back then. It’s the difference between South Korea and North Korea at night.
Destroying the Coal Industry won’t save the planet, that’s a simple and convenient lie told by environmentalists to shame the masses for using it as energy. Everything we use for energy, comes from this planet, you can’t get anymore natural than that. All the BS about Wind and Solar power this and that, more than half the time, none of those are efficient enough to power a radio for more than an hour.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:44pmsickening. hows that hope and change working for you?
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 11:38pmWho are these guys? The first guy sounded like he was either drunk or senile. And there’s the guy who brags about how how much the “coal industry” has reduced emissions and how proud he was of that (they reduced emissions alright, because they were forced to by the government).
If you want to know why America wants to reduce coal emissions, go to China, where coal is their main source of energy. If you go to the east coast (like Shanghai) where China’s industry is concentrated, you almost will never see the sun unless the wind is particularly favorable. It’s 24/7 smog and living there is like smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. It stinks, everywhere, all the time, and every flat surface is coating with grime from coal plant emissions.
The US has been there, and that’s why Nixon created the EPA. Cities like LA and Denver were covered with smog almost 365 days a year.
There was a trade-off. Did this country want to make the rich people more and more rich, or did we, as a country, want the average person to breath clean air and not get cancer from just living? And do we Americans want to see blue skies when we walk outdoors? Or the bleak, gray skies that people in China see when they walk outside?
BTW, communist China – communist China – no longer allows Chinese companies to build the same kind of polluting coal burning plants Glenn’s guys advocate. We’re talking communist China.
Report Post »biggerbull
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:22amLeave the bakers who know how to bake alone, leave the farmers who know how to farm alone, leave the cattleman who know how to cattle (?) alone, leave the people who know how to make energy alone!. “You may All GoTo Hell, I’m Going to Texas!”. It’s getting about time for the people who produce and create to prepare and give up. Let the people who can’t produce, produce. Let’s see what they can do.
You can have it like I found it, Who is John Gault?
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:51amJZS Have you ever been in any coal burning power plant or steel mill, have you ever been to China? You have no clue what you are talking about!
Report Post »mr.goodvibe
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:57amJZS say “If you want to know why America wants to reduce coal emissions, go to China, where coal is their main source of energy. If you go to the east coast (like Shanghai) where China’s industry is concentrated, you almost will never see the sun unless the wind is particularly favorable. It’s 24/7 smog and living there is like smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. It stinks, everywhere, all the time, and every flat surface is coating with grime from coal plant emissions”
So the air is cleaner here now than it has ever been since he start of the industrial revolution but we still need to close the coal burning power plants why? China is in the shape it is in because the commies are even more greedy than any capitalist ever thought to be. JZS H Christ you are feeble minded. If I have time I may respond to whatever bs you post later but I got more important things to do like dump all of my used motor oil on some poor baby seals.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:29amChina doesn’t have ANY regulations whatsoever, JZS. That very fact is the reason why so many civilians there have physical ailments just from breathing the air there.
Try again, please.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 1:47amUhhh, hello … Ummmm energy prices thru the rooooooof, IT WAS ONE OF HIS FREAKIN CAMPAIGN PROMISES…….is anybody freakin home ????? He said it 4 years ago….. Duhhhhh
Report Post »menticide
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 5:05am‘Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.” -Barack Obama
Well, at least he was honest, that’s kind of refreshing from a politician, not refreshing to the wallet, and not exactly the kind of honesty that one really wants to hear, but I guess it’s refreshing nonetheless…
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:25pmmr.goodvibe, I’m not picking up on any good vibes from you. But to answer your questions, I spend a week in China twice a year for my job. I’ve seen the sun once, although I admit I have only been to the industrial areas.
I’ll accept your comment that the air in the US is more pure now than it was, say, in the 60s. That’s due to EPA regulations, the very thing Republicans are trying to dismantle.
Apple Bite says China has no environmental regulations. So you’re in favor of regulations? In any case that’s false. You just made that up, pure and simple. Regulations (on air, water and soil discharges) are particularly tight on foreign companies, and very tight on new companies. There are a lot of companies that are “grandfathered” but controls of those are becoming more and more tight.
Why? Because, literally, China stinks. Things are so bad in certain areas the government is afraid people will revolt.
Apple Bite, the thing that gets me about people like you is you make absurd, false statements that you could have seen were wrong with a single Google search (“China emission standards” for example). I guess it’s nice living in a fact free world, but to me you simply look foolish.
Report Post »swalt
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 2:43pmJZS, you are among only a handful of fools who post on this site. FOOL: 1. a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense. 2. a weak-minded or idiotic person.
You are the one who chose to use the word “fool.” When a liberal is confronted with undeniable truths, they go to the Saul Alinsky Rules For Radicals agenda and attack the one who presents the truths they so adamently try to disparage. Conservatives are on to you and your ilk and it will be shown in the coming election. People like you better learn how to hide if you spout your nonsense in the open rather than hiding out on conservative web sites, because if Obama’s dreams for our future really come to reality, your type will be seen as the root cause of it all and people will be coming for you. And it won’t be to pat you on the back.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 3:24pmswalt, there actually is a topic here. Care to post something about that?
Report Post »swalt
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 4:26pmJZS you simply prove my point. Can’t debate the facts of what I posted so you go on the attack. Saul Alinsky again.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 4:48pmswalt, what fact are you talking about? The thing about environmental regulations?
Report Post »roostercogburn
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 7:30pmWell I have been to China, I have lived in parts of the world where you can not depend on electrical power, in other countries they make no attempt to scrub anything from any of the smoke at any of their coal plants, or any other factory either, we have the technology to burn coal clean but the government refuses to allow us to do it, when they take the rest of the plants off line this year they are planning on people will be in the dark, we don’t have enough generating capacity as it is, I just got home from spending a few month in Pennsylvania and had regular blackouts there as well, we need more power not less, cheap energy grows the economy it’s the only way to go.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:22pmWith Obama’s policy its simple: Control and power, collapse the system. He stated that under his energy plans, electrical rates of necessity would skyrocket.
Report Post »RebelPatriot
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:50amHe couldn’t get gas to $7.50 a gallon so now he will attempt to attack the American people with their utility bills.
Here’s the thing, the industry has gotten much better about policing it’s own issues. King Hussein will have to come up with new regulations he creates in order to drive the cost of utilities. I think all Americans are tired of giving our money to the Saudi’s for the last 60 years. When the utility companies are held hostage by the policies of King Hussein people will continue to use less to defeat the greed of the progressive’s to take our wealth by any means necessary.
I can’t wait, once prices rise and people start making their own solar panels to off set the prices, I’m sure there will be more regulations added to how solar panels can be manufactured.
For about $350 you can build your own solar panel and battery system and cut anywhere from 50-75 percent off your utilities. If you are not a huge user you can usually break even or make money.
Continue to stay ahead of the progressives and fight the good fight. It ain’t over til the last patriot is gone.
Report Post »justasurvivor
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:55pmResistance is fossile, potatoe!
Report Post »Quiata
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 9:41pm@The writer of this article: Come on!
Fossile???? Are you kidding? For someone at this level, it’s sloppy, if not incompetent… :/
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 12:13am“…As a result, jobs — some 2.15 million by 2010 — are lost…”
Report Post »Umm, guy- that’s two years ago. Was this article written in 2008 or wut? (sic)
Won’t be watching the vids- no bandwidth- but I‘m reasonably certain there’s a definite need for coal-fired electricity generation, more so than unreliable wind and solar power. The empoyment factor alone makes for excellent reasons to keep coal plants operating. Too, coal plants can be converted to wood chip fired fuel as well (our community did it a dozen years ago) and employ forest workers as well. As a rough guess, I’d say that coal and/or wood fired electricity employs ten people for every one employed by wind or solar, and don’t need the wind or sunshine to work.
skimmer57
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:57pmWhen is the caliphate coming? Is it before or after this disaster? After all the doomsday stuff from Glenn I’m just plain tired!
Report Post »Redistributor
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:20pm2.5m jobs lost nah wont happen
Report Post »mils
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:25pmwell, democrats are already in the dark..so they won’t know the difference..and as to losing jobs..hard working conservatives are the ones that will be hurting…
Report Post »nighttrainno9
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:18pmI’d be nice if obama visited a coal mine, like take him real deep.
Report Post »Get the picture??
RepubliCorp
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:26pmWhere are the Unions ?
Report Post »Grasshopper42
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:11pmSo, you honestly believe oil comes from decayed dinosaurs? Really? Not saying where it comes from, but dinosaurs!
Report Post »food plot 7.62
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:14pmHit it on the head
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:04pmObama hates America. America………true REAL Americans hate him.
Hat tip: AT http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/obamas_revealing_body_language.html
a picture is worth a thousand words. barry is a cold blooded reptile.
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on April 21, 2012 at 9:50pmthat picture should be printed in mag, it proves what a self serving arrogant SOB obama really is, obama didn’t care about that professor all he cared about was covering up his stupid remark about the police by having a beer summit, all that proved was obama opened his mouth before he had the facts AGAIN
Report Post »ArcticDodge
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:03pmWhile I understand the quoted comment, “is to lower our standard of living so the rest of the world can catch up to us.” Reality is they will NEVER rise to our level, we can only lower ours to be more like them.
Report Post »aChameleon
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:56pmGreen energy costs six times more than coal. Either they will tax coal until it‘s six times more expensive or green energy can’t compete.
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:05pmeither they will tax??? no, I think THEY will get taxed right in the ying yang.
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:55pmIf America becomes Greese in a year – who will play Danny Zuko?
Report Post »Better yet — Who will play Sandy??
devildogger
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:56pmCute, it’d be even funnier if you knew EITHER of the spellings for the word. It is either, Greece or grease. Only an utter dolt would use your spelling. Please, next time you think something is funny….. let it go.
Report Post »vox_populi
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:52pm“Fossil,” Blaze, “fossil.”
Hire a copy editor. Seriously. Do it.
Report Post »aChameleon
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:02pmFacile fuel
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 8:07pmI placed a large fossil on a large rock at Lake Stevens about a week ago…God had been bugging me to get rid of it for the last few months
Report Post »so3
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:49pmFossile?
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:44pmFosslie Fuel ????
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:47pmYes. It’s for missiles. :)
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:38pmFossil fuel bad, green fuel good.
If they ever remake Young Frankenstein, I could see Barry playing The Monster, and doing a song “Putting on the Ritz”. Of course, he does have that natural fear of fire, that comes from “FOSSIL FUELS” bwaahahahahahahahahaha.
Putting on the Ritz…unnnnhhharrrahhahhhaaaanngghhh.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:42pmYeah, and he wouldn’t have to have makeup either.
Report Post »GDarLynL
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:46pmSO true.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 10:50pmMonsters like that aren’t any fun.
Report Post »zoro51
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:36pmimpeach IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH damn socialist weak leader FIRE EVITA OBAMA TAX N SPEECH ANTI AMERICAN OIL ANTI US CONSTITUTION ANTI AMERICAN LIBERTIES ANTI AMERICAN PERIOD IMPEACH
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:41pmLook troll. I don’t really get what you are trying to say, but you Obama supporters need to just go back to MSNBC forum and leave us Blazers alone. :-)
Report Post »GDarLynL
Posted on April 20, 2012 at 7:48pmFrom UR fingertips to God’s ears: Keep it up so HE (upstairs) hears it. I’ll yell as loud as I can too. This evil person has GOT to go. We are in for ONE HOT SUMMER – in NOV we MUST make such a statement at the voting booth that there cannot be even ONE thought of a recount i.e., Al Franken-era.
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