Obama's War on Prosperity: The Energy Front

CNS News: Obama Forms Soros-Controlled Energy Council To 'Fix' Thriving Natural Gas Industry

... to expedite this natural gas boom, President Obama just recently decided to form an interagency natural gas council run by Cecilia Munoz, a former community organizer with La Raza and White House bureaucrat with deep-ties to George Soros, the billionaire investor who made his fortune in currency trading throughout the world while bankrolling liberal political efforts.

Munoz formerly led the OpenSociety Institute and the Center for Community Change, two organizations which are directly connected to Soros, MoveOn.org, ACORN, and other fringe groups with a long record of opposing the development of America's oil and coal resources....

 

HOT AIR: Notice anything missing from this “all of the above” representation?

.... Let me give you a hint.  It’s dark, hard, comes out of the ground, and creates jobs for hundreds of thousands of Americans.  That’s right — coal.  But hey, that’s no big deal, right?  We don’t rely much on coal in the US. Why, it only accounts for, er …46% of all electricity produced in the US

 

 

KEITH JUDD, POSTER BOY FOR WV COAL INDUSTRY

 

April 11, 2012:

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Alpha Natural Resources Inc. has reported a first-quarter net loss of $29.1 million or 13 cents a share on revenue of $1.9 billion.

Facing weak demand for steam coal used by power companies to generate electricity, Alpha announced production cuts in February that will reduce annual output by about 4 million tons.

Kevin Crutchfield, Alpha's chief executive officer, hinted that even bigger cuts are in the works... The changes to be announced will reduce Alpha's steam coal production by the equivalent of an additional 7 million tons a year, he said.

.... The total impact the additional cuts will have on employment was not immediately known. Alpha has about 14,500 employees. Of that total, about 8,000 are in West Virginia.

 

 

 

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

I'm trying to figure out which is worse: being affiliated with La Raza or with George Soros. I guess that's like asking, "Where would you prefer to spend eternity -- in Hell or in Hades?" As for Obama's obsession with destroying the coal industry, that's a perfect example of what an ideology-- in this case the Green ideology -- does: It enchains the mind as surely as shackles enchain the body. The idea that coal and oil are "bad" is as mindless as any idea ever contrived by stupid people. What's truly bad is the suffering wrought upon this nation's miners by the same stupid people who concocted the idea. These people are generally referred to as "intellectuals" -- which is an utter misnomer since they haven't used their intellects since the day they entered college. As usual, Eric Hoffer was right: He defined an "intellecual" as "a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and smell of common folk." Ironic, isn't it? Our current crop of Leftie intellectuals can't stop telling us how much they bleed for the common folk. Yeah, sure. Just ask those coal miners.