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But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.
Drill everything mine everything roll back regulations tweak the science expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to our 21st-Century energy problems.
In the United States we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views but the ocean gets no respect.
One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.
Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.
The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American and it has an enormous amount of political power.
In reality Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power bashed energy-efficiency standards attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.
When it comes to energy cost isn't everything – but it's a lot. Everybody wants cheap power.
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.
Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.
In the world of energy politics the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs' like the health effects of air and water pollution.
