Groups spend millions in 'clean coal' ad war

Environmentalists have abbetted China in their building Coal Power plants, one per week for years now, with no pollution abatement technology requirement - period. They wrote that into the Kyoto laws and then excoriated the USA government for not signing onto their legislation. (more to come)

Environmentalists now have launched an "appeal" to the American voter that bases their critique of Clean Coal technology on the agreed nascent status of Carbon Sequestration technology (CST)as a part of a larger conspiracy against the folks. They further seek to define "Clean Coal" as ONLY being composed of CST and ignore the role of Scrubber Technology contribution to effluent clean-up - which is + 98% effective on Coal smokestack pollution. (more to come).

The Environmental movement is, essentially, a Luddite movement that will drive the economy over a cliff with "Chicken little - like" arguments-of-the day, geared to rouse the ire of the uneducated masses. The Environmentalists that have taken a few decades to educate themselves to actually understand the situation are now (The founder of Greenpeace in Europe) in favor of Nukes as the "greenest" carbon free energy alternative. This is a position that represents a complete, 180 degree, turnaround from the earlier (1970's era)Greenpeace position. (more to come)

The real question is "do you really trust that these self proclaimed expert "progressive" Luddites can provide a solution to supplying adequate energy supplies while contributing zero emmisions ?". If you do, I have a large house in Tennessee that uses massive amounts of energy I'd like to sell you, along with a private jet, now owned by a previous, now equally large assed, presidential office seeker with a Nobel prize on his fireplace mantle....

Oh...one more thing.. The article cites a 5.88% re-investment of profit ($1 of every $17) plowed back into R&D investment. As 10% of profit is a norm for R&D, a figure of almost 60% of your entire R&D expenditure - on a single (CST) technology - is actually very high. See what I mean ? these folks are essentially one-world government socialists that are trying to whip "the proletariat" into a frenzy so that, utimately, Al Gore and company can profit. In the end, they really don't give a "rat's patootie" for you or the real environmental issues. Those issues are boring, unless they can make a ton of money and be hailed as saviours in the process of taking over your lives. Get it ??

So the Coal Industry isn't trying to brainwash people in order to establish a government more partial to them and, in the end, rake in the profits? Come on. "These folks" are not all in it for profit margins and draconian law. I agree that some probably are, but the vast majority are people who see alternatives to an outdated technology. Until coal can be "extracted" (though I think harvested is a much better term to aim for) without ripping the tops off of mountains and depositing them in the valleys below, without setting up sludge lakes that eventually collapse and kill hundreds of people, and used without creating unnecessary pollution and waste, it is simply an outright lie to call it "clean."

if you believe in global warming you have s--- for brains