{"id":399577,"date":"2021-05-26T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=399577"},"modified":"2021-05-27T15:32:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T19:32:14","slug":"biden-reignites-obamas-assault-on-the-coal-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/05\/26\/biden-reignites-obamas-assault-on-the-coal-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Reignites Obama\u2019s Assault on the Coal Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

KEN: Look at what we\u2019re facing right now, economically, coming out of covid. All these different issues. And the Biden administration is saying, “Oh, we gotta get rid of these carbon emissions.” So, they are pressuring banks. 15 of them in fact, led by coal-heavy West Virginia. And the treasurer, Riley Moore said, in West Virginia, he\u2019s prepared now to terminate contracts with banks that pull back the fossil fuel industry lending. ‘Cause what\u2019s happening, that\u2019s the other way you\u2019re being discriminated against. Oh, you like using gasoline? We\u2019ll teach you. Think about this. This sounds like Russia in the fifties. It sounds like China now. Let\u2019s go back more than a decade. Rush nailed this. Listen to this.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: If you happen to live in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Colorado, and even parts of Indiana, Barack Obama wants the coal industry in which you work to go bankrupt. He intends to bankrupt it. He also intends to cause skyrocketing energy prices. He made these comments earlier in the year with an editorial board meeting that was recorded, the San Francisco Chronicle.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: What I\u2019ve said is we would put a cap-and-trade system in place that is aggressive if not more aggressive as anybody else out there. So, if somebody wants to build a coal-fired plant, they can. It\u2019s just that it will bankrupt them because they\u2019re gonna be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that\u2019s being emitted.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s gonna bankrupt \u2019em. He\u2019s got a cap-and-trade program, Algore, this is to save the planet. He\u2019s gonna bankrupt \u2019em. By definition they will be bankrupt. But that\u2019s not by itself the single most damaging aspect of what he said. This is…<\/p>\n

\"\"OBAMA: When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, you know, under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, the electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, he wants folks, he wants to bankrupt the coal industry. Now, I\u2019ve never seen a presidential candidate actually admit that he wants destroy elements of the U.S. economy. He did. He said it. And now he wants skyrocketing gas prices. You remember when gas, or energy prices. Do you remember when gasoline spiking up to four bucks? The only thing Obama said about it, “well, only thing that bothers me is how quickly we got it up there.” But he didn\u2019t do one damn thing to lower gasoline prices. He didn\u2019t care that they were that high. His only stated concern was that they got up there so quickly. Here he is, same interview with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board January 2008.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I\u2019m capping greenhouse gases, coal-powered plants know. Natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers. If you can\u2019t persuade the American people that, yes, there\u2019s gonna be some increase in electricity rates on the front end.<\/p>\n

\"\"But that over the long-term because of combinations of more efficient energy usage, and changing light bulbs, and more efficient appliances, but also technology, improving how we can produce clean energy that the economy will benefit. If we can\u2019t make that argument persuasively enough… you can be Lyndon Johnson. You can be the master of Washington. You\u2019re not gonna get that done.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it would have been nice if you\u2019d tried to persuade us, sir. The thing is he didn\u2019t try to persuade us about this. This has remained a stealth plan. I mean, we\u2019ve known he\u2019s had a carbon trade plan, a carbon trade-off. All the liberal Democrats are touting that. We didn\u2019t know that by design, it\u2019s to bankrupt the coal industry, and we didn\u2019t know that by design it is to cause electricity rates to skyrocket. Biden, on the campaign trail, a rope line, September 17th. He gets a question, “wind and solar flourishing here in Ohio, so why are you supporting coal?”<\/p>\n

BIDEN: We\u2019re not supporting clean coal. Guess what? China\u2019s building two every week. Two dirty coal plants and it\u2019s polluting the United States, it\u2019s causing people to die. The first guy to introduce a global warming bill was me, 22 years ago. The first the guy to support solar energy was me, 26 years ago. It came out of Delaware. But guess what? China\u2019s gonna burn 300 years of bad coal unless we figure out how to clean their coal up because it\u2019s gonna ruin your lungs. And there\u2019s nothing we can do about it. No coal plants here in America. Build them if they\u2019re gonna build them over there, make \u2019em clean, because they\u2019re killing us.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: All right. So we\u2019re gonna leave the coal industry to the ChiComs. And we\u2019re gonna make noises, we\u2019re gonna, like the ChiComs gonna listen to us. “Hey, hey, Hu Jintao, clean up your coal, hey buddy old pal, clean up your coal, stand up.” Who? What? Oh, you don\u2019t tell a communist stand up. Communists tell you to sit down. For the past six years we have an hearing about how we\u2019ve got to really harm Walmart. We\u2019ve gotta push Big Drug. We have to punish Big Oil. We have to punish Big Energy. We have to punish Walmart. We have… now I know they didn\u2019t say they wanted to bankrupt these industries, but they were on the enemies list.<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party has made it plain who their enemies are, and their enemies are those things that compromise the engine and the fuel of capitalism. They do want to shut down, I take it back. They do want to shut down talk radio. That industry they do want to shut down. They\u2019ve made no bones about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KEN: This sounds like Russia in the fifties. It sounds like China now. Let's go back more than a decade. Rush nailed this. 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