Does the majority of US citizens believe in “clean coal”?
As you can see from the above posts, yes, unfortunately most of my fellow americans do believe in this fiction. The fact is that clean coal requires the extremely dirty and environmentally destructive technique of mountain top strip mining. So yes, the actual burning of the new coal is clean but its procurement isn’t. As for nuclear, how is relying on Russia, Sudan, and any number of unstable African countries for new sources of uranium any better than depending on the middle east for oil? Just because France does something doesn’t automatically mean that American environmentalists are going to worshipfully follow suit just because Rush Limbaugh says we will. The ignorance is stifling…
