Obama says, YES..Gore says, NO!!!!

[Tellurian]

Obama's Coal liquification Energy Plan:

Barack Obama Supports Coal Liquefaction

According to The Washington Post, "The coal industry praises Obama's reintroduction, with Sen Jim Bunning (R-Ky.), of the Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Promotion Act of 2007 last week, which would provide incentives for research and plant construction. The industry says the technology, which converts coal into diesel engine fuel, would reduce America's dependence on foreign oil through a new, home-mined fuel that burns as cleanly as gasoline."

..I'm not thrilled at the prospect of drilling more holes into the earth and worrying about trapped coal miners..and the reluctance of candidates not wanting to promote the use of alternative fossil fuel sources aiding in CO2 reduction, such as Ethanol..

Traditional environmentalists will scream at the 'Rock Star' senator now because he is not pure. They will not scream too loudly though because of Senator Obama's current popularity and his commitment to a clean environment in general. We are sure Senator Obama will support an equivalent carbon dioxide offset strategy and AAEA would be happy to advise him on his choices. Senator Obama is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, which is, and has been for decades, the highest ranked caucus in Congress on environmental issues. The CBC does not get much credit for this in the mainstream media, even though most of the caucus is liberal and composed totally of Democrats.

http://aaenvironment.blogspot.com/2007/01/barack-obama-supports-coal.html

Gore: Special interests are 'out of control'

Thursday May 31, 2007

In an interview on CBS's Early Show on Thursday, former Vice-President Al Gore was asked about pressure from coal interests to have the US government not only pay for the building of coal liquification plants but order 25 years worth of fuel in advance. "That would be a horrible mistake," Gore responded, insisting that we need to shift away from fossil fuels and towards renewables.

"In a democracy, we have always had power exerted by special interests -- but it's out of control now," Gore said. "The special interests almost every time now outweigh the public interests, and that's dangerous for our democracy."

Asked further, "Don't you have a greater obligation to make your views more public," Gore laughed at length and replied, "Well, I haven't been a shrinking violet. I haven't been shying away from making my views known. ... I don't hold back, and don't intend to."

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Gore_defends_record_I_havent_been_0531.html

...Obama's Energy solutions are in direct conflict with Gore's Global Warming Programs. To date I haven't seen anything different or unique about Obama's plans or progressive ideas for clean burning fuels as a transition from oil to an alternative fuel source that would effectuate cleansing CO2 gases from our atmosphere. And frankly, I tend to believe Gore knows what is good/bad for the planet. If Obama has a new clean burning alternative fuel source program I'm not aware of.. please post it here.