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Posted By Neophile 1 year, 8 months ago in NewsAccording to advertisements on CNN, Americans for Balanced Energy Choices is sponsoring the next Democratic debate, which is to air Thursday from Texas. Americans for Balanced Energy Sources promotes the use of coal.
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questionseverything1 year, 8 months ago
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just recently the dept of energy backed out of an experimental coal plant when a town in illinois won the bid for placement,,,,,the emissions were suppose to be captured underground......do u think coal would be exceptable under those conditions?
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svensun1 year, 8 months ago
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So does Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana, a DEMOCRAT!
Read it and WEEP!
http://governor.mt.gov/hottopics/faqsynthetic.asp
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Bkumm1 year, 8 months ago
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Moderator: "Senator Clinton, what do you think about using coal to meet the future energy needs of the United States?"
Clinton: "Well, I think that we should use all of the available resources at our disposal to free the United States from the shackles of energy dependence. We've been slaves to the Middle East for far too long. If we continue down this path we're likely to find ourselves unable to emancipate ourselves from oil and I think my opponent is determined to keep us in chains to foreign oil. That's why I supported legislation to use only American coal and not oil from the slave masters in the Middle East."
Moderator: "Senator Obama, your response?"
Obama: "Wow."
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Natureboy1 year, 8 months ago
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Holy crap, that Clinton is one backward idiot.
"oil from the slave masters in the Middle East."
Last time I checked, it was not the middle east saturation-bombing the US, but the U.S. bombing and invading the middle east, pumping their oil from the ground.
who then is the master, who the slave?
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tehranchik1 year, 8 months ago
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It must be easier to trade one problem for another instead of creating and searching out new alternatives.
What are they thinking? We are getting rid of the lightbulbs because of greenhouse gases----I'd like to see the ratio of gases cause by lightbulbs to coal power.
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earthlingerer1 year, 8 months ago
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The lightbulbs are being phased out due to inefficiency. When you can get 20 watts of fluorescent lamps to emit visible radiation equivalent to 100 watts of incandescent lamps, the mandate makes sense.
It won't be long before those are kicked to the curb for advanced LED technology. In the future, homes will be DIMLY lit, kind of like a Borg dwelling.
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joey-evans1 year, 8 months ago
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Neo,
Thanks for letting me know this was going to be on....I will check it out to see which candidate actually says something of substance instead of nice little slogans. I hope that both are actually asked the important questions that we as Americans face. Unfortunately, the last seven years has been nothing but a disaster for us non ultra rich. We will see and I believe it will go a long way in determining which Dem will be leading our country as president for the next four years.
JOEY EVANS
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Charlson1 year, 8 months ago
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There is nothing balanced about coal as an energy resource. It adds significant greenhouse gases to our atmosphere. The question to ask is, "If you want to promote coal as an energy resource shouldn't you first work to make gas emission better for our environment?"
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BB641 year, 8 months ago
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Please show me real data on the greenhouse concept where you can actually prove to me this is happening. By showing me a scale of 100 years isn't enough information. The planet is around 4 billion years old. 100 years of info is less than .000000001 %. That's hardly conclusive evidence of anything and doesn't take into account weather cycles.
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 8 months ago
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Their advertising has been on many of the debates. In fact advertisements hawking the benefits coal have been very pervasive in general. How is it they have so much money to spend on ads? The treatment of Coal miners has been a disgrace. They don't seem to have much money for safety or wages. ... I sold my soul to the company store...
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Spadecaller1 year, 8 months ago
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Will it affect the questioning?
I don't know if the coal industry will, but if CNN is sponsoring the "debate" which it too lofty a term for what CNN actually conducts, I do expect that we will hear a lot of questions that will attempt to expose the flaws in the democratic party platform. Wolf Blitzer is as biased a host as they come.
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cowboygrandpa1 year, 8 months ago
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Neo:
Its not the question's we will hear but the ones we won't that will be the most telling.
Such as the candidates asking how "support" they'll recieve from their benefactors the coal industry?
What kind of legislation they can legally shove down our throats and how can they spin and sugar coat it.
Wake up people these are politicians not people who care about the populace. They care about power, money and greed.
Don't believe it look at the changes in the tone of the debates and rhetoric being bandied about. None of theses candidates have our best interests at heart. We don't have enough money or power to make them care. We are but the extras in their little ploy.
Thanks for the heads up and story.
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scott42611 year, 8 months ago
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Sometimes I imagine that our reality is really all just a bad dream...that I'm gonna wake up and we will be nearing the end of the second term of an Al Gore Presidency and that we are in a green energy economic boom.
Then I wake up.
Damn! Bush is still President!
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dexlovex21 year, 8 months ago
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This will be the 19th democratic debate and I think thats more than enough already. Hopefully questions about the environment will come up, but I think that Hillary Clinton will use it to go negative, since her team seems to think that its the only thing that will work against Obama now.
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IcCaRus1 year, 8 months ago
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wow, i wonder if wolfie and AG sunk merely because its a story about the democratic debate? (remember when one of them said he/SHE would vote hillary before mccain (yeah, as if)) or if it had to do with the coal angle?
either way, sinkers who dont bother to comment, no matter who they are, or what the story, shouldnt have their sink counted.
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scott42611 year, 8 months ago
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I have to disagree there. I have sank quite a few stories and I usually don't hang around to explain that I sank those stories because I thought they were complete bulls**t! Plus, I am not really fond of slamming my head against the wall, so I'm usually off to read or view something else...
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Radiofreeeuropa1 year, 8 months ago
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Some of the stuff I sink is so wretched and stinking It would be nothing but futile to attempt to communicate with whatever predatory lifeforms were infesting the thread. Of course being sunk by the likes of the vermin is honorary.
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