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  • At first you think it's absurd. terrorists are extremely dangerous! ... The thing is though, there are so, very, very few of them... But air contaminants are ubiquitous. A little bit of coal in the air? *everybody* gets to die sooner, and be sick as a dog leading up to it. I also wonder if it was High Fructose Corn Syrup that destroyed my grandfather's pancreas and thus cost him his leg--via diabetes. A terrorist can kill hundreds. HFCS DOES KILL THOUSANDS.

  • The US is ranked 50th for life expectancy at birth among Portugal, Bosnia, Panama, Costa Rica, and Cuba. Interesting to note that the countries ranked at the top have socialized health care. Living longer means more of a strain on social security, doesn't it? I've lived outside the country and the number of people we have with allergies by comparison is astounding, but allergy meds are big business, aren't they?

  • Pure black propoganda.

    By the way if Barky is impeached in the House & convicted in the Senate, this Zionist will nuke Iran.

  • WTF, he has been in power for 2 and a half and HAS NOT DONE 1 THING TO FIGHT HFCS! This man is a FRAUD.

  • although he's saying the truth, i still think that the world will explode if he somehow becomes president.

  • Im actually agreeing with him... : /

  • He is such a wanker

  • uhh i think corn syrup and coal is more dangerous

    that HFCS is dangerous

  • oh yeah and f*ck bill maher

  • listen to the lyrics of this song. Dethklok - Dethharmonic [FULL VIDEO CLIP]

  • F*ck the FDA, AMA and all the other puppets that lead the lambs to the lions den.

  • If congress changed its diet of eating processed infant meat and drinking high fructose corn syrup directly from the bottle, it wouldn't but such a collective lazy ass. It won’t though, because it could give a sh*t, all they care about is having someone to suck their dicks at the end of the day, literally or metaphorically speaking. They are just trying to earn their one way ticket back to hell, if there is such a thing.

  • And this is why Biden is the shit, because even if you don't like what he has to say he always speaks his mind. Even if he isn't President, knowing that he's number 2 and saying this makes me smile a little.

  • comparisons among european countries is clear: the more HFCS they eat, the more obesity they have. Still not at the US level, but trying hard. How can a country like the US be so blind to this Corn Sirup issue? Lobbies?

  • two lizards......typical

  • wouldnt say that the people whos countries are getting invaded and are victims of war crimes who put the lives of those people from the united states lives in danger, are "terrorist" (which seems to be a general word that politicians try to use to entail any act that they can think of to try to use as an excuse for an agenda.) furthermore, i would say that those people from the united states are putting their own lives in danger, and that should be more of a concern to the well being of them.

  • what say you, FDA? you should all be fired, possibly indicted.

  • Our presidential team is doing great things. Lets pray they stay in office Organics were mentioned in the bible in leviticus 25 where it talks about giving the land a rest and burying compost and I hope that we can continue to keep people healtier and moving in a progressive manner without the evil secularists that are obsessed over money over peoples health getting in the way.

  • Excellent! He really comes out and says it! Love that. The media controls so much of our focus and media is paid for by advertisers mostly, so it's no surprise that we are supposed to be distracted away from real issues of concern in favor of real issues of concern that affect us far less but don't threaten anyone's profits! Go Biden! And now HFCS is being rebrandied. Can't WAIT to see what industry comes up with next. We pay corp's daily to give us diabetes or cancer so pharma makes money.

  • If only al-Qaeda had carried out their initial plan to slather lower Manhattan in corn syrup, they would have created far greater death and devastation. In the end, the logistics of it were too daunting, so they just hijacked some planes instead.

  • I sorta think Corn Syrup in most everything is a Terrorist Act.

  • CLEAN COAL!

    CO2 IS LIFE!

    CORN SYROUP all the way

    OBESITY ACROSS THE SKY!

    put the concept of musilim radicals for a second and see how much more evil the terrorists that own these huge companies and run this country are.

    maybe it paints a picture as to why someone would hate america so much. aside from intolerance and stupidity ofcourse.

  • "CORPSE, CORN SYRUP"

  • how they process corn syrup

  • and its got mercury in the corn syrup

  • I'd rather have him than Obama

  • He said "CORPSE SYRUP".

    That's pretty much what corn syrup is.

  • Haha, you tell it, Biden! Though a terrorist attack can be frightening, your chances of getting killed in a terrorist attack during your lifetime is virtually ZERO.

  • Biden sucks his own cock, fuck him and all he has to say.

  • @CodeguruX How eloquent. You sure did convince everyone to sway to your political standpoint.

  • THANK YOU BIDEN

  • ... Biden said something intelligent. I'm stunned.

  • The biggest step is using real cane sugar in mass produced products again. Pepsi made a product that switched the HFCS with Cane Sugar and it was amazing. The second thing is eating/drinking less of the junk food and replace the majority of that intake with veggies and fruits.

  • @charvelgtrs Actually it wasn't amazing, I've been drinking regular pepsi all my life, by the gallon. Regular Mountain Dew, Coke, Sunkist, you name it. There was no difference in taste between the regular pepsi and "real sugar" pepsi. And the calories and carb content difference is virtually non-existant. You people are idiots and you need to shut the hell up. They've got you so wound up about these lies you'd vote for hitler if he ran on the no HFCS ticket. Morons.

  • @CodeguruX The calorie and carb contents are the same because as far as chemical energy is concerned, they are identical. However, HFCS is extremely cheap so it is easy to over-consume, and it is a monosaccharide as opposed to a disaccharde (sucrose, lactose), so it breaks down quicker and causes more blood sugar spikes. Also, it leaves 10 times as many carbonyls in the body than sucrose, which increase blood acidity and are responsible for complications in diabetic people (ulcers, blind, etc.).

  • @CodeguruX

    Just because you can't taste a difference doesn't mean there isn't a difference.

  • @CodeguruX

    Just cause your alive at the moment doesnt mean you are in any means healthy, infact i would bet you very unhealthy.

    Someone can smoke like a chimney for many years and not die, doesnt mean they are healthy and wont feel the affect soon enough.

    Our bodies are amazing organisms HOWEVER if you dont take care of your body, EVENTUALLY it WILL give up and thats when your reality changes very quickly.

  • @CodeguruX

    Just because you haven't gotten diabetes yet doesn't mean your immune to it. Besides, tongues aren't nearly as complex they seem. Sugar is sweet, and that's really the only way to describe it, regardless of whether it was made from cane or corn. Also, what's so idiotic about promoting a healthier system of food and nutrition for our country? It's kind of like wanting a more energy-efficient America, but, judging from your comment, I can already assume your opinion regarding that.

  • @CodeguruX

    I disagree. There is a crispness to the flavor of the real sugar version. People get conditioned over time. To really experience the difference, make some real sugar cookies at home and compare them to the crap from the grocery store.

  • well by reading the responses on this video i can see why this country is headed for socialism and you folks voted it in now excuse me while i fight off this bottle of corn syrup trying to kill me.

  • @cupster07 Every year on average 70 Americans die from terrorist attacks. over 300000 people die in America a year from obesity related illnesses and the number one cause of obesity in America is the massive intake of HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!! now which do you think is more of a threat to the average America's life?

  • @TheSaladBoy the FDA is a terrorist organization

  • @RaynorX

    Oh, because we have cheaper and more harmful sugar in our food means the authority allowing it is trying to destroy us? As far as I'm concerned, over consumption of any nourishment will have bad effects. Maybe there are other sources that should be warning us about this stuff, but don't.

  • @cupster07 THOSE TERRISTS HATE OUR FREEDUMSSSSSS

  • marer and biden are both idiots

  • He is exactly right!

  • Biden speaks the f***ing truth

  • Please correct the headline for this video. I believe it should read: "Biden Says Corn Syrup and Coal More Deadly Than Terrorism". It is a minor detail but correct grammar increases the likelihood of being taken seriously.

  • What is he gonna do? I love soda. Is he gonna put more sin taxes on it and make each can of soda cost 20 dollars?

  • What is he gonna do? I love soda. Is he gonna put more sin taxes on it and make each can of soda cost 20 dollars?

  • I agree with the last post. The government should make high fructose corn syrup illegal as well as lobbying from corporations.

  • that's because the Government is the real terrorist.

  • I've just made a video on the risks posed by high fructose corn syrup. Check it out here:

    /watch?v=7-L7LiO8U3c

  • he right lol,

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  • they want us dead. population control X__X

  • i like what he said but hes still an idiot

  • Because in reality, he DOES support Big Coal, Big Sugar and Big Terrorism, all 3 of which without, he would not get any new golf clubs, trips to Hawaii or BMW's from special interest lobbiests, with terrorism being most significant with huge pirks & kickbacks from Lockheed Martin, KBR, Haliburton and other, more off-the-record military industrial complex infrastructure suppliers and corporations.

    That's why Joe Biden he doesn't do anything about it, he's just another greedy sellout like Cheney.

  • great, now why doesnt he do something about it

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  • I"m sitting here in a state of speechlessness. Did I just see and hear what I thought I did? I've never seen a politician tell the truth. Wow. So that's what it's like? I have to play it again.

  • @emerson24 lol..amazing indeed..we won't get that oppurtunity again for the next 1000 years :)

  • @emerson24

    you should watch some Ron Paul speeches

  • @woadancincolours yeah, and see how he doesnt believe in govt regulation so that products are not protected when us the consumers consume them, because it would cost money -__- human security > profit

  • @woadancincolours Oh yeah, RP's the man. He was excluded from that comment :)

  • The only reason that food companies use corn syrup as a sugar substitute is because it is cheaper than sugar; and the only reason corn syrup is cheaper than sugar is because corn farmers are subsidized by the government ... also, watt for watt, solar power is less expensive than coal -- the catch being, the initial investment towards the infrastructure would make the overall cost more than coal ... what we need is an investment in our energy infrastructure and to curtail the corn subsidy ...

  • corn syrup got mercury in it just google mercury found in high fructose corn syrup . Please stop the madness

  • omg, I agreed with a Democrat. Now he should drop sugar tarrifs so that companies stop using hfc so much.

  • The guy speaks the truth, surprisingly, but what's he gonna do about it?

  • Nothing. Beause in reality, Biden DOES support Big Coal, Big Sugar and Big Terrorism, all 3 of which without, he would not get any new golf clubs, trips to Hawaii or BMW's from special interest lobbiests, with terrorism being most significant with huge pirks & kickbacks from Lockheed Martin, KBR, Haliburton and other, more off-the-record military industrial complex infrastructure suppliers and corporations.

    That's why he doesnt do anything about it, he's just another greedy sellout like Cheney.

  • @PresidentRich all right, this dudes a dumbass, talking about coal and terrorism is still a real threat to americans lives (maybe the ones invading and occupying their countries, committing war crimes, but i wouldnt call that terrorism, i would call that self defense.) that being said, he just informed you, what more should he do (in your opinion)?

  • @KeefyGizzle u would call invading the Sovereignty commiting war crimes,and occupying another country "Self-Defence"???.

  • @myleftnutts you should re-read and try to get a better understanding of what i was trying to say with what i wrote before you ask a question about it. but re reading it, it was a little confusing, so to clarity, what i meant was "americans", as joe biden probably called them, (which might have led you to assume he meant people from the united states, but probably isnt what he said), who are invading their (the "terrorists") countries and committing war crimes, lives might be in danger, but i

  • @PresidentRich NOTHING :D, even dumbest politicians (well except michelle bachman) are smart people, they know what all the shit does to us, what bankers do in wallstreet, but none of them cares, because they need those campaign contributions for reelection and those comes from big corporations not average joe, so guess who they will protect? :)

  • I love Joe Biden for telling it like it is. He speaks of truth.

  • i told my doctor i stopped drinking soda and she said good because the acid in soda is worse than coffee and if u drink it on a regular basis it gives millions of americans early (like in their 30's early) osteoporosis without them knowing about it until later in life. it literally is like poring acid on your bones,

  • I stopped drinking sodas altogether. Haven't for a long time. I've occasionally, VERY RARELY, indulged, but that's it. I think I've taken the evil of this world and used it as an excuse to develop a moral backbone, and we all should. You could drink your own filtered water if you really wanted to. It truly quenches your thirst, and is far healthier for you than soda which is actually harmful (as is tap water, btw). Make the right decision today.

  • Byden the man of truth

    shut down the coal and corn syrop business today

    both are killing you and reducing your health

    one chokes you the other makes you a lard ass

  • wow a truth

  • One good thing about Biden...

  • Fluoride can cause osteosarcoma (bone cancer) in both fluoride-treated male rats and boys under the age of 20 living in fluoridated areas. Osteosarcoma is a rare, but deadly, form of cancer that strikes primarily during the teenage years

    See the Cancer section in the Health Effects Database at FluorideACTION . net for more info

  • I watched a video-documentary called "The Beautiful Truth" on Netflix the other night...shed a lot of light on the lies fed to us about processed foods, fluoride and lot more...really worth the watch!

  • The rats are jumping ship.

    CHEMRISK - a research company hired by the Corn Refiners has recently taken down it's YouTube page.

    The removal was in response to negative public perception resulting from the high-fructose corn syrup ad campaign. Apparently it has become a liability to defend the sweetener.

    See the last remaining ChemRisk video at CornRefinersAssoc on YouTube.

  • I fuckin hate high fructose shit syrup

  • Lift sugar tariffs. I want real sugar in my soda.

  • Well from my understanding on watching and reading about HFCS is that it does a few things that is bad. Some examples are that unlike sugar it doesn't tell the brain you have had enough(same reason they feed it to cattle until the come close to dieing) To me it would be nice to research and see just when HFCS came to market and when Americans became so overweight. Just wonder if there is a true correlation.

  • Correlation does not imply causation, that kind of research would just be a waste of money since it can't hold up in any sort of lawful argument.

  • True on the cost and the out come with lobbyist controlling the outcome but there are studies that do prove the effects of corn syrup on the human body compared with natural sugar cane.

  • I have gone out of my way recently to almost totally cut out any products with high fructose corn syrup lately and in the last few months, in combination with regular excercise, have lost over ten pounds. Not terribly drastic amount, but I have no doubt that it will continue as I keep living healthy.

  • I do not agree with 90% of what the Obama administration does, but even as a conservative I can say I agree with Joe Biden on this one. I am for consumer choice, and the corn industry has taken away our choice to not eat unhealthy food by sneaking their high fructose poison into virtually every food on the market except for beans (and I'm sure they'll find a way to do that sooner or later, too). It's high time that Big Corn be held accountable for their greed!

  • let the fatties be slaves of the health care system. that might be our only industry.

  • go joe! the threat of terror has been exploited by the last administration. refreshing to have brains and logic in the white house again.

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  • To put things in perspective, it was collllddd last month. I live in a modest and everything is electric including heat.

    My Bill was 240 dollars for the month.

    So in Germany I would have paid $640.00.

    Sorry, I can't afford to be "green", I have to leave it up to the rich people like Al Gore.

  • Joke Biden is more like it

  • Isn't Obama, like, in favor of coal burning right now? XD

  • Sinse the article that hfcs has mercury in it I definately think that it should be first.

  • Please Mr Biden.....change the FDA! Ban the stuff!

  • I disagree with the vice president. I would have put HFCS first then the coal.

  • what the hell is wrong with you ppl....terrorism is a real danger. harmless coal and sugar is hardly a danger

  • Go and check fact on the impact of HFCS in our food supply the corresponding increase in morbid obesity and diabetes and coal hasn't certainly taken more lives than terrorist. Sure terrorism is a danger but how much of a danger has been blown out of proportion for business and political reasons.

  • I know many people that died of obesity.

    I know many children who are damaged by mercury, we can't even eat fish because of mercury AKA coal burning releases mercury into the atmosphere then it gets concentrated in food we eat

    Terrorism is a tactic you can't have a war against a tactic - Ron Paul

  • fuck yeah!

  • LIBRULS

  • libs rule yeah

  • Coal is actually very likely killing more people than terrorism. Coal has led to lung cancer, asthma deaths, and mercury poisoning. (oh and climate disruption)

  • Really? Thats sounds crazy

  • Shut down the coal and nuclear plants now, and let us sit in the dark and with no Internet, right? Hey Big Government, I want my free solar panels and my windmill!

  • Sit in the dark without coal and nuclear? You are miles off the mark with that. There are plenty of sources that involve neither coal or nuclear, which both have disparately fatal consequences when used.

    Think Solar, Sugar Ethanol, Geothermal, Wind, Hydroelectric, and, of course, Corn Ethanols, after further development has occured.

  • Nick, don't forget about algal fuels! them too... plus no one is talking about free solar panels, although it wouldn't be unlike the government to build power generation systems for free (case in point: Hoover, Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams). it's in everyone's interest we have a stable energy supply, it's simply a matter of national security.

    it's also in our interest that it be renewable: again, a matter of national security.

  • Big Government - like the subsidies for Nuclear Power plants? Hmmmm. Kettle, I just got an IM from Pot about you...

  • Take a look at the death toll in Iraq, then look at how many people die from obesity related deaths each year.

  • Look up 'non-sequitur'

  • In the United States, 23,600 deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution from power plants. Those dying prematurely due to exposure to particulate matter lose, on average, 14 years of life. Burning coal also is responsible for some 554,000 asthma attacks, 16,200 cases of chronic bronchitis, and 38,200 non-fatal heart attacks each year. Atmospheric power plant pollution in the United States racks up an estimated annual health care bill of over $160 billion.

  • If you have a permanent solution other than blaming Big Oil and Big Coal, then you need to run for office.

  • And if you consume electricity and gasoline, then you're part of the problem.

  • The question "what is more LIKELY to cause the death..." asks for a factual answer based on likelihood of those things causing a death. And as telephusion pointed out, you are more likely to die from coal than a terrorist attack. If you dispute this, or disagree with biden, you can really only argue your point on the plane of facts and probability.

    What the country SHOULD focus on, is a different question, and the answer to which would be purely opinion.

  • World Socialism is much more deadly. When Bankers come to cash in, Stalin well seem like a walk in the Park and North Korea like Disney Park.

    They will simply kill you, if you voluntarily give up your rights.

    Their bait ?

    The external Threat Doctrine. If you submit to it, you will regret it for the rest of your Life.

  • Ahhh yes, just look at europe, they have lots of social democracies and people are dying by the millions there.

    shut the fuck up and get the fuck out

  • who are these people dying by the millions? and in what "social" democracies? just a tad less vague? i just wanna know what you're talking about, you're so vague...

  • World Socialism is more deadly? Tell that to the Indians...

    Only when threated by expansionist views, are the socialist (not communist) experiments really destroyed. Just ask Sweden, Switzerland, or Singapore...all very socialistic cultures.

  • I never knew being a thief & calaborater automatically made one a socialist, hmm, must have missed that in history class, lol

  • There never has been a truely communistic movement that Karl Marx invisioned, save that for communes, & even they failed.

    What you had instead was a perverted system that was based loosely on Communism called Stalinism, & other varying degree of it in various nations.

    You cite Sweden as socialistic ? Funny since they was in bed with Nazi Germany, & to this date, refuse all efforts to turn over loot the Nazis his there in WW-II.

  • You have made some very accurate and telling comments on the dangers of continuing down the merry coal way. I live in western Pa and witness constantly the results of coal mining in the discolored acid streams which leach out of the soil and rocks all sorts of vile metallic pollutants. The scars left upon the landscape like strip mines and coal tipples are truly appalling. Coal needs to be consigned to the museum like buggy whips and child labor.

  • Saying that as you consume a few hundred watts while using your PC is a bit retarded don't you think?

    When you go and turn on the light switch and nothing happens what will you do?

  • When you no longer have safe food or water to consume because they are loaded with mercury and other yummy good metals what would YOU do?

    We could have been a lot further down the road to sane alternative power sources but thanks to that corrupt senile old fossil Reagan and all of the slugs that followed him, we are miles behind the curve.

    If we had properly invested in R&D, this conversation would most likely be powered by the sun.

  • That's not likely to happen.

    What you advocate is clean coal since I know you have done your research and realize that "alternative" energy that is anything other than Nuclear Power is a joke.

  • I have no issues at all with nukes, but to classify all other alternative power sources as a joke lowers my opinion of your veracity. What is the percentage of domestic energy generation from solar in Germany? Add to that, what is the latitude of Germany? And the climate of Germany isn't exactly the equivalent of the Sahara.

    Wind? eh... Bio fuel? Better, but not corn based, that's a boon doggle aimed at Iowa caucuses voters. Geo-thermal? Great potential, little or no funding.

  • Clean coal? Not when companies can do this "Trading of credits " bull shit. There needs to be plain old CAPS on the amounts of mercury emissions permitted, and taking into account the toxicity of mercury, these limits should be very very low.

    We have given every advantage to the utilities in the last couple of decades, from de-regulation to governmental candy store tax breaks, it is time for them to say thank you by ending the poisoning of our total environment.

  • How much is the average German's electric bill?

  • About 60€ to 100€ per month

  • Interesting.

    I am coming up with prices of 22 Cents (American Dollars) Per Kilowatt Hour in my research.

    By comparison, Americans pay on average about 10 cents per Kilowatt Hour.

    So Germans get to pay double at looks like that is subsidized. Last month it was cold as hell and my power bill was $240.00 American Dollars ( I heat with electricity).

    Sorry but I aint gonna pay no $480 bucks a month for electricity (even that price is subsidized by the german government)

  • Yo you crazy with your calculations Holmes. In Germany I pay, averaged over the year, 60 euros per month and I heat with electricity. Granted, a lot of that is because I don't live in an oversized cookie cutter house with really thin walls.

  • That's from your own government.

    Look at your bill and tell me what you pay per Kilowatt-Hour.

  • it wouldnt matter what i pay for my kilowatt-hour. What matters is how much i need to pay per month when it's cold as fuck. My electric bill doesnt give me that information, so i can't quote that for you. sorry.

  • Telling me how much you pay per kilowatt-hour allows me to compare what your government says your average KW per hour cost is VS what you are telling me it is.

    According to your government, Americans pay less than 1/2 of what you pay.

    It's broken down on your bill if you actually look at it, or are you a kid who lives at home and never bothers to look at his parents electric bill??

  • No, I'm not a kid, odd question coming from someone named jizzmonger. I'm sorry but my bill does not list what I pay per kilowatt-hour. My BG&E bill back in the USA, where I am from, did. But this one doesn't. It's a different system here. You are billed a certain rate per month based on the average from last year's total bill. But I can tell you, I pay less for electricity/heating here than I have anywhere else, and I've lived in 4 countries. And can you cite this source from "my" govt?

  • Yes.

    They Germans on Average, pay 20 cents per Kilowatt-Hour for electricity.

    I pay 7.0 cents per kilowatt with the most expensive in the United States coming in around 12 cents.

  • but how much do they get paid....have you had a pay change in 10 years???

  • By moving beyond coal, the United States could avoid a legacy of smog-filled skies, acid rain, polluted waterways, contaminated fish, and scarred landscapes. This could each year save some 25,000 lives, reduce respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses, avert potential neurological damage for 630,000 babies, and erase a health care bill of over $160 billion.

  • Biden is 100% correct.

    Airborne pollutants kill far more people each and every year than the combined total of all terrorism deaths in all of history.

  • Wow, coal has been used for over 100,000 years, and now it's all the sudden a threat to humanity. Go figure, politicians using scare tactics to bring about horrible government policies.

  • yeah it's called learning

  • ?? ummm. ok. whatever yo.

  • youtube can't figure out how to display comments right, that one wasn't directed for you

  • ahaha oh. okk

  • I agree with him. Honestly you people dont!?

  • Consuming corn syrup is voluntary. Being decapitated or blown up by a terrorist is, for sane people, is NOT.

  • Duh. What a brain dead conversation. I mean, are these two the intellectual giants of the century or what ?

  • Is everyone in this town on drugs?

  • this video reminds me of my videos!!1

  • TreeClimbingMan AKA Joey is leaving you tube because the corn industry is on his case about speaking the truth. The milk companies are also pushing him to close his you tube account. Sad, but true! You speak the truth your going to get squeezed off the Internet!

  • Angry Biker on you tube will tell you the deal with corn syrup!

  • ne fun men?

  • Terrorism can't make our drinks yummy though.

  • The 600 plus coal-fired power plants in the United States burn 1 billion tons of coal and release 98,000 pounds (44 metric tons) of mercury into the air each year. Power plants yield an additional 81,000 pounds of mercury pollution in the form of solid waste, including fly ash and scrubber sludge, and 20,000 pounds of mercury from cleaning coal before it is burned. In sum, coal-fired power plants pollute the environment with some 200,000 pounds of mercury annually.

  • Solid wastes from coal-fired power plants also contain heavy metals like arsenic, selenium, chromium, and cadmium; carcinogenic organic compounds; and radioactive elements. These toxins can leach into streams and groundwater supplies, compromising peoples health.

  • Element like selenium and chromium are not toxic to your health if you have a good diet.

  • Other atmospheric emissions from burning coal include sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon dioxide (CO2), particulate matter, and nitrogen oxides (NOx), which in turn form ground-level ozone. SO2 and ozone are highly corrosive gases that cause respiratory distress and contribute to low birth weight and increased infant mortality. SO2 and NOx are also the primary causes of acid rain. CO2 is the dominant gas responsible for the greenhouse effect that is warming the planet.

  • Particulate matter from coal combustion has long been known to harm the respiratory system. Now recent research has shown that small airborne particulate matter also can cross from the lungs into the bloodstream, leading to cardiac disease, heart attacks, strokes, and premature death.

  • Are you a vegetarian?

  • In the United States, 23,600 deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution from power plants. Those dying prematurely due to exposure to particulate matter lose, on average, 14 years of life. Burning coal also is responsible for some 554,000 asthma attacks, 16,200 cases of chronic bronchitis, and 38,200 non-fatal heart attacks each year. Atmospheric power plant pollution in the United States racks up an estimated annual health care bill of over $160 billion.

  • *** The largest source of mercury pollution is coal-fired power plants. ***

    Airborne mercury emitted by these facilities is deposited anywhere from within a few hundred kilometers of the smokestacks to across continents, far from its source. Mercury then becomes the potent neurotoxin methylmercury which easily travels up the aquatic food chain, accumulating at higher concentrations at each level. Larger predator species contain the most mercury, which is then passed on to those who eat them.

  • One out of every six women of childbearing age in the United States may have blood mercury concentrations high enough to damage a developing fetus. This means that 630,000 of the 4 million babies born in the country each year are at risk of neurological damage because of exposure to dangerous mercury levels in the womb.

  • Compare the risks for yourself. 9/11 terrorism: approx 3000 deaths. Cause of Death // *Annual* Numbers of Deaths HIV Virus // 14,681 Homicide // 16, 831 Drug-induced // 18,443 Alcohol-induced // 19,086 Firearms injury // 28,839 Coal-induced illnesses // 25,100 *** Motor vehicle injury // 46,378 Heart attacks among non-smokers from exposure to tobacco smoke // 62,000 data is from US Centers for Disease Control & US Environmental Protection Agency
  • Wow -- it takes guts for a politician to tell the truth. Biden didn't waffle, he said something that could be misinterpreted -- and he said it clearly. He told the honest truth.