| Clem made an excellent economic argument against clean coal. But it does make me wonder: where are the fiscal conservatives?
Once upon a time you had conservatives who cared about financial issues. I mean really cared about them as opposed to those "conservatives" who cheered on George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's budget busting record deficits and then immediately jeered Barack Obama for not immediately balancing the budget after inheriting two wars and the worst economy since the Great Depression.
The support among Republicans for a massive govement subsidy for coal is proof they are not principled on conservative issues. Just as GOP Party chairman Doug McKinney and Shelley Moore Capito and other Republicans are willing to throw the social conservatives under the bus for electoral reasons, why are they not taking a stand against clean coal on fiscal conservative reasons?
They are willing to spend billions on government subsidies on an unproven technology for coal, when we are running out of the amount of coal that makes economic sense to mine. So much for believing in free market principles.
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