Horrible… Obama Now Making Up Stuff About Coal Industry In Order to Block Production
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 11:44 AM
Worst. President. Ever.
On Sunday April 25, 2010, President Barack Obama attended the memorial service in West Virginia for the 29 miners who perished in the nation’s worst mining disaster in 25 years. During his speech to the families Obama praised the coal miners and “the fruits of their labor that so often we take for granted.”
“Five miles into a mountain. The only light, the lamp on their caps. Day after day they would burrow into the coal. The fruits of their labor that so often we take for granted. The electricity that lights up a convention center; that lights up our church or our home our school our office. The energy that powers our country. The energy that powers the world.“
President Obama praised the coal industry at the miner memorial service.
But, that was last year.
In January the Obama Administration, for the first time ever, blocked an already approved bid to build one of the largest mountaintop removal coal mines in Appalachian history.
Now… Obama is just making stuff up in order to block coal energy production.
Via FOX Nation and CNSNews:
President Barack Obama claimed that coal could create “the kinds of air pollution” that is “creating asthma for kids,” in speaking at a town hall event in Annandale, Va., on Tuesday. However, the National Institutes of Health says that “the exact cause of asthma isn’t known” and that “asthma is different for each person.”
“The challenge with coal is that although it’s very cheap, it’s also dirty. And it can create the kinds of air pollution that not only is contributing to climate change but is also creating asthma for kids nearby,” Obama said in answer to a question about balancing deficit reduction with government spending on clean energy.
“You got asthma? Okay. And so sucking that stuff in is not ideal,” said Obama. “So what we’ve said is, let’s invest in clean coal technology that potentially can capture some of these particulates and some of the carbon dioxide that’s going into the atmosphere.”
Asthma, however, is not caused by coal, or the emissions from coal-fired power plants, as the president suggested. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) the true cause of asthma is unknown, although scientists believe it is caused by a confluence of genetic and environmental factors or early viral infections.
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Trish commented:
I think that coal workers should unionize, to protect them from the dangers of the coal industry. Oh. Wait. They did that. Then I think that electricity prices should necessarily skyrocket, when we stop all coal production. Oh. Wait. He’s doing that. I guess I am all out of ideas. And so is Obama.
2012 cannot come soon enough. God help us if the GOP doesn’t offer up someone who can beat this inexperienced, petulant boy, wanna be socialist.
gus commented:
NONSENSE JIM HOFT!!!! Coal has been PROVEN to cause ASTHMA in both UNICORNS and the EASTER BUNNY. In fact one or more of Obama’s Daddies died form COAL ASTHMA.
gus commented:
Coal is RACIST!!!!! Black Lung and such.
Trish commented:
Waiiiit a minute. I have Asthma. I never knew it came from the electricity in my house…I was always told that I have a hereditary condition and is brought on by different allergies. Thank God Obama is here to straighten me out.
Chisum commented:
Gus,
Even worse, it prevents Skittles from reaching their true color brightness. Racist!
tommy mc donnell commented:
the liberals don’t take the fruits of the miners labor for granted, they just take it.
Marsh626 commented:
Most people don’t know this, but America has the largest amount of natural resources in the world. We have the most coal by far. We’re the Saudi Arabia of coal. Killing that industry rather than exploiting it fully is simply suicidal. It would be like the Saudi’s refusing to drill for and sell their oil. That’s how retarded it is. We also actually more oil than Saudi Arabia. A lot more. It just has to be extracted from shale. We have tons of natural gas as well. We’re literally sitting on trillions upon trillions of dollars worth of natural resources. But the left-wing communists in this country won’t let us develope it because it produces harmless CO2. It’s time to push them aside and pave our streets with gold. We’d create countless millions of jobs by doing so and mountains of wealth. And you wouldn’t even have to be directly in the energy sector to get those jobs. When I lived in Norway, the communities surrounding offshore drilling rfaciliies were surprisingly posh. Lots of fancy restaurants, shops and stores to cater to the industry that rose up around drilling for oil. I’d love to see the same thing here in America.
gus commented:
When Skittles are outlawed only outlaw Unicorns will shyte skittles.
gus commented:
MARSH626. You are living in a fantasy world. The ONLY WAY to a wealthy society is THROUGH GOVERNMENT redistribution. If your MAKE BELIEVE country of wealth and oppurtunity exists, it will come from THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLLING THE ECONOMY.
It’s the ONLY WAY FRIEND. Trust in Barack. He will lead us there.
Ginger commented:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/apr/obama-spares-arrested-illegal-immigrant-protesters
Jules Hamil commented:
Am I wrong or not??? Didn’t the coal industry union workers vote overwhelmingly for this moron in the last election? Even after he told them point blank in his campaign he was going to bankrupt them with his new charges. And they (West Virginia, Virginia) elected a Democrat to represent them in the Senate, right? I don’t feel too much remorse for them.
Tricky Dick commented:
His lips were moving weren’t they????? What did you expect?
Ginger commented:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/apr/usda-spends-5-mil-recruit-food-stamp-recipients
Want some food stamps go get um! hmmm hmmm hmmm
Jeff commented:
He is the president so he know everything. Never question it! Get in line with the media types.
StrangernFiction commented:
“I wanted to host this breakfast for a simple reason — because as busy as we are, as many tasks as pile up, during this season, we are reminded that there’s something about the resurrection — something about the resurrection of our savior, Jesus Christ, that puts everything else in perspective.” – Emperor Soetero
Pure Evil!
Joanne commented:
Anyone with asthma – try Usana Nutritionals, the Essentials with Proflavanol. I know of a man, just one of thousands of stories, but this fella I know personally used to end up in Emergency a number of times every month unable to breathe. He went on Usana products, and he never had to go to Emergency again within a very short time period. They have products for children too. So I know, personally, that air pollution, especially coal, does not cause asthma – it may irritant an existing condition, but it is not the cause.
Stuart commented:
No, We have to Win The Future by shutting down power plants. Asthma is caused by the electricity that leaks out of your sockets. Every socket must have something plugged into it or your children will die of asthma. We can stop this needless loss of life by banning electricity. Therefore I am signing an executive order to shut down all power plants powered by coal, gas, or nuclear fission. Solar panels are exempted because I just got a huge campaign contribution from the solar industry. By the way you better keep the money coming you never know when my EPA might find a problem with solar. It could happen.
You got to trust me on this one. After all I went to Harvard.
Granny commented:
One of the very first things that the Obama regime did on seizing power was to rescind permission to the Navajo Nation to build a new coal fired electrical generating plant previously approved by the Bush administration.
The Navajo Nation covers an area bigger than all of New England, serviced by just a single electrical plant. They also happen to have some of the largest coal deposits in the country. Those who live outside the towns, however, often have no electricity and truck water for miles. I suppose that Obama thinks that it is FAR better for thousands of people to continue without electrical power or water than it is to build a coal burning plant using clean coal technology . . . . but then he DID say when he was running for president that he was going to put an end to the coal industry in this country.
Joanne commented:
http://trevorloudon.com/2011/04/must-view-rep-allen-west-defense-in-a-time-of-economic-danger/
Allen West talks about being energy independant in this video for America’s national security. All the Middle East has to do is turn off the taps when America’s economy crashes, and America will go back to the Dark Ages, and then coal in a hurry.
Joanne commented:
Granny, Obama is trying to shut down America, and so far, he is succeeding.
Jeff commented:
Gus,
” A very insightful article, “Facts Not Fear on Air Pollution”, notes that “According to the
Centers for Disease Control, the incidence of asthma in the United States rose 75 percent from 1980 to 1996, and nearly doubled for children. … But air pollution cannot be the cause, since it declined at the same time asthma prevalence increased. While the incidence of asthma has more than doubled in California since 1982, air pollutants of all kinds have steadily declined.”
http://www.caealliance.com/asthma_and_coal_fired_power_generation.pdf
With the way we regulate our coal emissions in the US, maybe far stricter than Ontario’s coal industry, emissions would have been far lesser than in times past. So if there is an increase in asthma, never single out something that we have regulated to death and required more from as the culprit for all our ills.
Jeff commented:
Sorry, Gus, I did not read the rest of your rant.
theBuckWheat commented:
“Five miles into a mountain. The only light, the lamp on their caps. Day after day they would burrow into the coal. The fruits of their labor that so often we take for granted. The electricity that lights up a convention center; that lights up our church or our home our school our office. The energy that powers our country. The energy that powers the world.“
vs:
“You got asthma? Okay. And so sucking that stuff in is not ideal,” said Obama. “So what we’ve said is, let’s invest in clean coal technology that potentially can capture some of these particulates and some of the carbon dioxide that’s going into the atmosphere.”
Just today’s example of how, when a liberal speaks (about anything), every word is intended to advance their internal reality, a reality that is plastic and continually changing. For these people, there is no such thing as constant truth. Their concept of truth is what they are thinking and feeling at the moment. So, even when facts and logic are convenient to advance this “truth”, they will be shamelessly used and repeated. The instant those facts are no longer useful, they will be neglected, dismissed or even railed against.
This is why liberalism is a pitiful mental disorder.
SSBN 627(B) commented:
Betcha the gubmint drones over at NIH will be changing their tune right quick, then we’ll get the CDC on board, then we’ll have radical hatchet-faced abortionist hag Kathleen Baby-Killer Sebelious trot out a press conference: “A shiny brand-new study indicates that killer koal kauses kanchres, kancer, KKK, and khronic asthma – the same asthma that kills the babies I personally so love. Especially in my wrinkle cream.”
Isn’t it funny how the commies are using the radical environuts to shut this country down? This would be the same form of government that routinely obliterates nature in its quest for supremacy. Go hug a tree, then kill it. Dupes.
We had better come up with a cure for this disease, amelioration for this rancid infestation afflicting our national government.
One Billion Dollars can buy a LOT of votes, even after it’s been watered down by stimulus.
Madkangaroo commented:
The causes of asthma may not be known with certainty, but I’ve been told by more than one environmental engineer that they suspect the more energy efficient houses and schools built since the first Earth Day have something to do with it. The reason? They don’t allow as much ventilation with the outside and, thus, allergens and other irritant substances tend to build up (look up “sick building syndrome”). Chronic exposure to higher concentrations of allergens and irritants, they said, may lead to hypersensitivity in genetically prone people.
Wouldn’t it be a tragic irony if millions of asthmatics suffer not from the use of coal to produce energy, but from attempts to use that energy more efficiently (for Gaia’s sake)?
Tom Stelene commented:
Scare-mongering about coal from a pampered nobody who wouldn’t know how to dig a damn hole.
SSBN 627(B) commented:
#26 Tom – or break one bead of sweat. Unless it’s something worthwhile. Like B-Ball.
wanumba commented:
“You got asthma? Okay. And so sucking that stuff in is not ideal,” said Obama.
………………………………….
So spaketh the Harvard Law Review Editor.
No way he went to college classes, anywhere. He’s what 50? and he talks like he’s 18.
Buffalobob commented:
Is there nothing this community organizer won’t do to screw the American working class?
Wake up American he is out to destroy our system.
Roger commented:
I’m well past the point of not watching any videos of Obama. I get about 20 seconds into the video and I shut it off.
He makes me sick and he talks with a forked tough.
dunce commented:
Last night the MSM did a report on coal ash and a coal ash giant spill. What they left out was that the coal power plant operator was the TVA, a government run electrical generator. They could not find a privately owned utility with the same bad safety record so they impugned the entire industry for a govt. blunder but withheld that key piece of information. What needs to be banned is the govt. running any kind of business, not coal electrical generation.
AuntieMadder commented:
He’s not going to stop the destruction until he’s destroyed this country and Israel completely or he’s removed from power. We need to decide soon which way it’s going to be.
Daniel commented:
Does this boob, aka POTUS, know that we export coal to – - – wait for it – - – China?
We don’t even use it all for ourselves.
Does he realize this could tick off the landlord-soon-to-be????
Chew on that one.
befuddled commented:
since all the manufacturing jobs have gone away, why do idle factories need cheap electricity? we simply need to make people conditioned to wearing an extra sweater during winter months and drink plenty of water during the summer months–energy problem solved. now that we don’t need the coal for internal consumption, let’s ship it all to China at a discount rate. in return China will fund the Obama reelection campaign, as usual. oh let’s not forget free ipads for inner city youths and illegals. wow, this president thingy is so easy.
ian commented:
Gus is deranged…. didn’t know OLD people homes allowed their occupiers to use computers.
commonman commented:
O keeps spewing this crap because he knows no one is going to call him out.I grew-up on a farm I inhaled alot of nasty crap no asthma.Some studies of air pollutants showed no associations with asthma.
feduptoo commented:
My husband’s Dad was a coal miner, he always lived in coal country in WV, until he was drafted and shipped to VietNam, where he was exposed to Agent Orange.
He, nor his many brothers and sister had asthma….many of whom still live in the same area.
We both worked for one of the biggest Caterpillar dealers in Ky., I can tell you Obama’s bans on coal mining, is affecting this business also.
We lost a coke plant that closed due to Obama’s new and more costly regulations…this plant supplied to A-K Steel, (another industry we are losing).
In a neighboring State, W.Va., another plant is going to shut down too due to Obama’s costly regulations.
In our small town, 263 people working at the coke plant lost their jobs…..just after the hospital laid off over 200 people. I know the plant in WV is bigger, but do not know how many employees will end up losing their jobs there.
Obama’s bans trickle down to many different businesses, resulting in more people losing their jobs….I expect one of our only Made in America businesses will also be affected by his policies soon….the RV business, and all associated with that!
China bought into an oil and gas field in Texas…..Wyoming’s coal is shipped to China….Cuba plans to have 5 rigs drilling off their shores…..Obama has loaned Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and 2 Mideastern countries money to drill for oil, build refineries, while he bans ours.
As for his “green” jobs…he just loaned $2.6 billion to Germany to build mirrors and solar items that will be built in Germany, and assembled here by who knows who! The deal with this is, if this Germany company defaults on payment, like another “green” company did here…..this ends up on taxpayers backs!
What I am saying is, Obama works more for foreign countries to gain jobs and fuel resources than he does the USA!
Ponderon commented:
Thank you Feduptoo
you said it better than i could , i was born and raise in Eastern Ky, i know to well that coal is the life line for eastern-part of state with-out coal industry the eastern part would be a shell. Obama’s regulations have put alot of small coal companies out of business in the state and the trickle down effect to other businesses .This is why he only speaks to young people most of them don’t work still live at home with mom and dad have no clue about the cost of anything. Lets pray this night mare will soon be over .
dallasdan commented:
Obama is a lying POS. No news here.