God gave us more Wind and Sun than he did Coal & Oil so why don't we use that up first - when we are out of wind and out of sun, then we can use up the coal and oil...

We need to use the gallows God gave us to hang this douche and all of his ilk.

God gave us the coal...and corporate appeasers like this turkey gave us coal sludge, topped mountains and crushing poverty in coal country.
This guy needs to be sentenced to life in Appalachia where the victims of his hubris and greed have to live with his SH*T.

We need to use the marijuana god has given us too but you pricks will have us imprisoned and treated like scum for doing that.

Ya know, God also gave us pot, heroin, and all kinds of things natural. So, I'm guessing, Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC), you'll be coming out for all those in the near future? What's that? You've lost your microphone? Your testosterone dropped when you voted the McCain/<strike>Quitter</strike> Palin ticket? Not that you had any to begin with.

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Actually, heroin is processed, so not natural. Pot, though.. he should be voting to remove it from the scheduled drug list because that's what's good for business!

Why is it that their logic only applies to things that fatten their pockets?

Maybe Sen. Graham can explain to all of us why he thinks that 'God' gave us coal to use. I never saw that in the Bible. Maybe he means that everything on Earth was put here for us though, right?? However, by my count, there are a lot of things on this Earth that just aren't fit for our use. Like, I don't know, spider venom. And there are plenty of things that this same moron rallies against using...like hemp and marijuana. Didn't 'God' put those things on this planet for us to use too?

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"there's nowhere near 60 votes for a cap-and-trade system that puts a lot of businesses out of business."

Um, you don't need 60 votes to pass a bill. If it gets to the floor, it gets voted on. You morons need to get this 60-votes for bills idea out of your head.. your willingness to abuse tactics meant to stave off very errant legislation, and doing it for partisan reasons, needs to stop.

"Environmental policy has to be good business policy,"

No, it doesn't. It would be nice if we could find a way for the two to get along, but we need the environment MUCH more than we need to be business friendly. I don't know what hole you've been living in, but life isn't cheap. If the prosperity of some has to be diminished so we can keep having clean air and water, then so be it. You don't get to build giant palaces on a foundation of corpses.

"What would happen in this country if you build a hundred nuclear power plants in the next thirty years? It would create millions of jobs. And we need to use the coal that God has given us."

Uh, nuclear plants don't use coal, and coal didn't come from god, it came from geology. And you know what else would make millions of jobs? Building factories that build machines that end up doing all of our work and make it so no one has to ever work again. Of course, that would also require that the few squatters on our natural resources be removed... and those resources be given back to the public who has a rightful claim on the entire planet. Millions of jobs would be created if we started taking all those resources and building sustainable, renewable power stations, like geo-thermal and wind and solar. Once the energy is free, the rest is much easier.

And the entire last paragraph of the posting shows that these people ONLY care about making money, exploiting the planet for their own gain, and if they can't do that, they will happily kill us all with pollution and waste. People with no foresight should not be leaders.

I couldn't agree with you more.

Stop posting here AND RUN FOR OFFICE !!

We need to use the coal GOD gave us, so we can then ingest all the mercury that GOD apparently put there while watching the trees die from the high sulfur content that GOD also decided to add.

I say we build all the coal plants in South Carolina. They won't notice the diminished mental capacity caused by the heavy metals, as electing Graham shows the residents clearly don't have much to lose in that department.

"best of"

That guy is a human straight line.

Is any of God's coal under Graham's house?

Why doesn't Lindsay Graham eat all the arsenic God gave us.

oh.my.god
dinosaur bones from jeezus
i'm no expert but um...
isn't this the number one contributor to global warming?
in fact, it's so nasty, general electric and the nuclear boys
are posing as "greenies"

God gave us tall trees and short ropes, maybe its time to use them against treasonous politicians, lets convict them and see

I'm no fan of the GOP or Graham, but I think this headline jumps at shadows a bit.

While Graham clearly means we should burn coal for energy, on the grounds that it's already there, I see nothing wrong with him attributing its presence to his god. If he see a divine coal-giver as either a literal or metaphorical reason for coal's existence here, then that's his way.

Personally, I don't mind using coal per se. I just want to use it to hold up the mountain tops and not use it for fuel.

The problem is that "god" gave us this ONE AND ONLY PLANET which this jack off and his ilk would prefer to destroy in the name of greed.

Fuck the facts! Keep the corporations happy! Right, Linds??? I don't know how your thinking is perceived by "god" but I would think a sane god would be FUCKING PISSED!!! (I AM!!!)

"Environmental policy has to be good business policy," Graham insisted. "What would happen in this country if you build a hundred nuclear power plants in the next thirty years? It would create millions of jobs."

Senator Douchebag's dream of a hundred nuclear power plants, all operated by for-profit corporations who would cut corners on safety whenever possible in the name of their god Money, and dump all of that waste material...somewhere, should be a nightmare for anybody who has a rational thought in their head. One nuclear accident, either at a power plant or a waste storage facility, could easily render an area of our country uninhabitable for hundreds of generations, and then the only "jobs" created from that point forward would be in the hot zone trying to mitigate the mess. And who would get to pay for that ruin? The American taxpayer of course.

The rest of Skippy's position is so typical of the idea-bankrupt (and corporate owned) GOP of 2009. Just like junkies, their take on energy independence is to kick the oil and coal habit...starting tomorrow.

"if you build a hundred nuclear power plants in the next thirty years?"

That would take about a hundred years or so. What makes nuke plants so slow to build is a few componets that are only manufactered a few of each year since it takes a huge amount of material know how to safely build those componets.

As for millions of jobs the trillions used to fund the nuke plants can hire tens of millions of permanent jobs. A nuke plant doesn't take thousands of people to run most of them it's automated and maybe a few hundred max.

Then you have all the waste facilities that cost trillions more.

Even China is moving away from coal plant tech.

While energy generation in a COMPLETED nuclear plant is relatively CO2-free, the process of building the the plant itself, preparing the fuel and disposing of spent fuel waste puts the overall generation of CO2 per lifetime energy output at the "middle of the pack" among our current energy generation choices. http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0810/full/cl...