Electric bills will rise. Thank Obama

Yup, Obama is going to get rid of that dirty coal...

Too bad a huge portion of our energy comes from coal currently. Take that away, and you have much higher energy costs.

Time to be "patriotic". Who needs West Virginia anyway?...

http://www.wvrecord.com/news/215679-coal-official-calls-obam a-comments-unbelievable

quoted from article.

""I think this clearly shows the attitude the Obama-Biden ticket has toward coal," Ben Beakes said Sunday. "Rhetoric is cheap, but behind closed doors what they tell their supporters - that's what we have to take as gospel.

"They're definitely not friends of coal."

Beakes noted other examples of Obama and Biden making seemingly anti-coal statements, such as in February when Obama said he'd like to tax "dirty energy" such as coal and natural gas.

"And their cohorts in Congress make similar statements," Beakes said. "(Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid (D-Nevada) said this summer that 'coal makes us sick.'

"This is an attitude and view that, to me, shows their hatred of coal. And therefore, their view would cost West Virginians thousands upon thousands of jobs.""

Monk wrote: Its doubtful any president will get anything done about energy in the next 3 elections atleast. So unless Obama has the super majority and his party agrees with everything he says, then I wouldn't count on stopping coal.

It all depends on what you mean by "getting anything done" about energy.

Energy is actually one of the areas that gets consistent congressional and regulatory attention.  Small and big changes are happening on a regular basis.

And some of the changes proposed are not so complicated.  Building more nukes, for instance, is mostly a matter of telling the NRC to start approving applications.

As for renewable energy, the wall street bailout bill included some vital tax credits for renewable energy - although the wind folks will seek another extension this spring.  So that is already done.

The two main things that would majorly change our energy policy, however, would be more complicated and will take time.  First, a national renewable portfolio standard.  Second, a carbon cap and trade system.  Both are generally popular, but both are very complex and will take time to get done.  Shouldn't be a matter of policy so much as a matter of just doing the prep work.

Other policy changes, like a feed-in tariff would be easier from a process standpoint but perhaps more controversial as well.  Yet others, like changing net metering rules, should be almost a no-brainer.

Anyway - there are easy things and hard things.  It wouldn't be difficult to find some very popular easy things to do, if they try and have the right people whispering in their ear.

Bruce Banner wrote: FreeEnterprise wrote: yeah, dude... Tallon is so msart. Much smarter tahn teh presideenet of the Ohio coal association... He's for coal, must be dumbb. . http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=prnw.20081103.CLM078 &show_article=1 Once again, your links bear no relationship to your posts.  Do you just hit the link-randomizer when you post?

Yeah, an article TITLED

Ohio Coal Association Says Obama Remarks Make It Clear: Obama Ticket Not Supportive of Coal

That doesn't relate to tallens comments about coal in wva...