There’s something that the presumptive US presidential candidates said last week that’s been a source of amusement, if not complete bewilderment, that I had to bring up on my blog.

Lately, we’ve all been feeling the squeeze – or in some cases, a head vice – each time we fill up our cars at the pump. Apparently, this hasn’t gone unnoticed by the Republican candidate, John McCain, who suggested the building of 45 new nuclear power plants and, get this, the development of technologies for using “clean coal” to reduce ‘America’s dependency of foreign oil’. Checking in on the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, reveals that he too supports the idea of “clean coal”. Sounds to me like neither of these guys has ever been around coal since I’m sure even coal miners will agree that clean is the last thing you think about when you work with coal. Click here to continue reading »”Coming Soon To A Gas Station Near You – COAL!”