Monday, April 27, 2009

RFK Jr. Blasts Obama as 'Indentured Servant' to Coal Industry

"Clean coal is a dirty lie," says environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who calls President Barack Obama and other politicians who commit taxpayer money to develop it "indentured servants" of the coal industry. Despite a series of expensive false starts and failures, President Obama proposed $3.4 billion in stimulus legislation to fund continued research on "clean coal" projects. "Clean coal is like healthy cigarettes, it does not exist," says former Vice President Al Gore. The coal industry has been running a multi-million dollar advertising blitz to promote the theory that coal can be made clean, using one of Obama's campaign speeches in its television commercials...ABC News

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Considering that RFK, Jr and Uncle Ted are vociferously opposed to the Cape Wind Project because you can see it from their family compound, this is a case of the pot calling the kettle "black".