This explains why Obama chose Stephen Chu as Energy secretary. They both hate the coal industry and want higher energy prices. President Obama wanted a partner in his plan to destroy the coal industry.
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Let me go to the supply side of the energy problem. Now, we have lots of fossil fuel. That’s really both good and bad news. We won’t run out of energy, but there’s enough carbon in the ground to really cook us.
Coal is my worst nightmare. Carbon emission in the next thirty years is predicted in the current forecast to - we’ll be adding three times the amount of carbon dioxide in the previous history of all humanity if we continue on our present course.
