Barack Obama Supports Developing Clean Coal Technology

Thanks for that comment, Joe.

Barack Obama supports clean coal. Here's what he said a while back while he was on the campaign trail: I am a big proponent of clean-coal technology and I want us to move rapidly in developing those sequestration technologies that's required. What we need to do though is to put clean coal technology on the fast track and that means money. It means investment in research. That's something that we should have already been doing.

it's not the governmnets job to spend money that is not theirs just for R/D.

Frettsy: First of all, coal is Americas most abundant resource, so USING it for energy through clean coal technologies would make us energy independent

Clean energy is one of President Obamas pillars of his economic recovery plan. In a report conducted by BBC, a coalition of labor groups found that power plants equipped with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies could create between 5 mil and 7 mil man-years of employment during construction and a quarter of a million permanent jobs.

I mean, I'm all for us using coal.. we already do. but shifting to "clean" coal will not promote energy independence. it will simply raise the cost of domestic coal.