Gore fans and Obama fans - please help get Gore's message about coal liquification to Obama

[Czolgosz]

President Gore says S.154 (a bill promoting coal liquification) is "a horrible mistake."

Here's a video link of Gore's interview on The Early Show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbNImXTEkNA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Edailykos%2Ecom%2Fstoryonly%2F2007%2F6%2F2%2F222114%2F7934

Obama is co-sponsoring this legislation but it's not too late to fix that.



More discussion here: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/2/222114/7934

[Czolgosz]

1. kick before bed

[illinoisprogressive]

2. i have been thinking about emailing Obama's campaign and doing a blog on there

I know obama is backing the clean coal as he thinks it can be safe and for jobs for illinois. I respect both men highly yet, I am very mother earth. i respect nature and feel sick over global warming and worry alot about the bushies controlling things for the next 2 years and doing irreversable damage.

[illinoisprogressive]

3. oh, and I recommended your post.

[Harper_is_Bush]

4. K&R. Global Warming should be the #1 thing on the minds of all Democrats, Liberals, Progressives,..

and everyone else too.

[wtmusic]

5. Too much coal in southern Illinois

Good luck.

[spoony]

6. very informative, k and r

Just sent mail to my reps about it.

[Usrename]

7. Carbon sequestration has to be part of the deal - or no deal.

Obama should start reading up on this stuff if he wants to make a serious run at this.

It's the ecology stupid!

[ikojo]

8. Former DEMOCRATIC representative Dick Gephardt

is now a lobbyist for Peabody Coal...seems it is not only Republicans who go from government to corporate America. Both parties are shills for corporate America.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/29/1515/


Published on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 by The New York Times

Lawmakers Push for Big Subsidies for Coal Process

by Edmund L. Andrews

WASHINGTON - Even as Congressional leaders draft legislation to reduce greenhouse gases linked to global warming, a powerful roster of Democrats and Republicans is pushing to subsidize coal as the king of alternative fuels.

snip

Peabody, which has quadrupled its annual lobbying budget to about $2 million since 2004, recently hired Richard A. Gephardt, the Missouri Democrat who was House majority leader from 1989 to 1995 and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and 2004, to help make its case in Congress.