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Posted by: Neophile 1 year, 9 months agoAccording 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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Neophile
Feb. 20, 2008, 11:33 a.m.It will be interesting to see if there are any questions about the energy situation or climate change tonight.
Watch out for this one: "Don't you love coal?!?!?"
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Bkumm
Feb. 20, 2008, 11:47 a.m.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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tehranchik
Feb. 20, 2008, 11:49 a.m.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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2sidestoeverything
Feb. 20, 2008, 11:57 a.m.Neo, thanks for the heads up I look forward to checking this out.
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texangelwings
Feb. 20, 2008, 12:12 p.m.Thanks Neo, I will watch, for sure! I hope that there will be some really good questions and answers! It could change the discussion!
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Jaydee40
Feb. 20, 2008, 12:15 p.m.And people still think it's a free country, what do you think these companies want in return for their investment?
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joey-evans
Feb. 20, 2008, 12:19 p.m.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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Charlson
Feb. 20, 2008, 12:41 p.m.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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Spadecaller
Feb. 20, 2008, 12:49 p.m.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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engineer
Feb. 20, 2008, 1:24 p.m.Coal is the dirtiest and the most dangerous of all fuels followed by oil and then ----nuclear!!
Thanks Neo
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Sock_Puppet
Feb. 20, 2008, 1:36 p.m."She's my Black Market Baby
She's a diamond that
Wants to stay coal"
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jordan11
Feb. 20, 2008, 2:22 p.m.Well, people will keep watching them, & won't send a message. (sorry folks.)
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cowboygrandpa
Feb. 20, 2008, 3:13 p.m.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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miklkit
Feb. 20, 2008, 5:55 p.m.Putting proper filtration systems on coal fired power plants would keep me working for years. Bring it on. :0) The political ability to do that now.... And then there is the strip mining.
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scott4261
Feb. 20, 2008, 6:50 p.m.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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dexlovex2
Feb. 20, 2008, 6:50 p.m.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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IcCaRus
Feb. 20, 2008, 7:37 p.m.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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