Great one!!! This has been my mantra to Obama supporters since Obama came on the scene.

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How long have these Obama quotes been out there? Re: his desire to use “price signals” generated from the government for our national energy policy. Or, his intent to “bankrupt” the coal industry?

People who rely on coal for their electricity have every reason to ask the professional reporters in the MSM why those reporters and their editors decided that these choice thought tidbits deserved to be suppressed.

I hope that, after this election, Redstate and the rest of the conservative blogosphere gathers a list—and it will be a very LONG list—of what the MSM covered up.

Then, we need to ask the MSM—loudly and often—why they covered up this information. Insist on answers.

We also need to go over the head of the MSM, go directly to Americans, tell them “this is what the MSM chose to hide from you” and start going through the very long list.

For example, I hope John McCain names the names of the MSM publications that questioned the parentage of Trig Palin.

I hereby volunteer as a researcher for said effort.

The next two years is a great opportunity for the conserative blogosphers to wage sustained warfare against the MSM.

In many cases, they’ve crawled out on a limb. And we have a saw.

And, once the American people get a taste of what information the MSM denied them, I think many, many Americans will cheer us as we saw away at the branch.

The conservative blogosphere has weapons. And, with all the skulduggery of the MSM during this election, we now have plenty of ammunition.

I suggest we open fire.

Article here.

I can’t wait until my collective subdivision has one of the Dear Leader’s minions energy advisors offering thoughtful advice on if, when, and how often I’ll be able to crank up the old Lawn Boy.

Pssst: They plan to regulate carbon as a “pollutant” and use the meatax of the EPA to institute it, economywide.

“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them”

No one apparently cared when Obama said that we can’t just expect to eat as much as we want, drive SUVs and keep our thermostats at 72 degrees and have other countries be ok with it.

And anyone is now actually suprised when a quote comes out that he wants to bankrupt the coal industry?

America deserves what it gets if it elects this guy.

I just read through the full text a second time. The other comments are right. There is barely a coherent thought in it.

[Sparky used a temporary email account to register here, which tells you everything that you need to know about his motivations. - Moe Lane]

Well I must admit I missed it earlier. How did everybody else miss this? I just heard a tape on Hannity & Colmes from January 08.

I wish this came up here on redstate at least 1 week back.

I hope this gets enough coverage tomorrow.

One has to wonder how much of a job the opposition research team for McCain has done on Obama?

Heck, this tape and everything else that has come out was done by other people not involved in camp

Socialism just plain doesn’t work, whether it’s the profits or the losses that you’re spreading around. Sure, a few people are reaping the profits of energy production and would hate to pay after everyone else has footed the bill for decades. Some of these people happen to live in swing states.

That doesn’t change the fact that emissions are real costs that we’re all paying, whether they come from a coal plant or a corn-ethanol refinery. A cap and trade system would make energy production a real market that responds to private profits and private costs.

Hopefully once the election is over and we’re less desperate for golden PA votes, we can look at cap-and-trade for what it really is.

Why cap and trade could backfire
Excerpt:

By most accounts, the European Union’s cap-and-trade system isn’t working. In its first year of operation (2005-06), emissions covered by the trading scheme rose 0.8 percent. During the same time, according to the Energy Information Agency, emissions in the US – which hasn’t ratified the Kyoto Protocol or adopted a cap-and-trade system – dropped 1.8 percent.

Samuel Bowles, a professor at the Santa Fe Institute, has noted that “[p]olicies designed to harness self-regarding preferences to public ends may be counterproductive. These failures occur when conventional self-interest-based policies compromise the beneficial effects of intrinsic motivation and … a desire to uphold social norms.”

The social stigma of carbon emissions grows stronger each day. As this stigma grows, companies are increasing their investments into research and technologies to reduce and store carbon. If Congress removes the stigma associated with these emissions by assigning a price to them, it may not like the results.

The two Obama money quotes are:

“Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”

and

“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them”

If the McCain campaign doesn’t have an ad with these two quotes flooding Pennsylvania, Ohio and SW Virginia by morning, he deserves to loose.

is that this is Obama’s approach to ALL traditional energy sources. He feels exactly the same way about coal plants as he does about nuclear plants, refineries, and drilling or mining of any sort. So if you like high energy prices, the Obama plan is for you.

P.S. I wonder what else we haven’t heard from SF. Isn’t that where the bitter religious gun-clinging comment came from too?