When Barack Obama told us in 2008 that he was going to bankrupt the coal industry, did you think he was kidding?  Or did you just conveniently ignore it because you thought that he was really cool?

Yeah … that’s what I thought. 

Believe me when I say that Obama’s war on coal (as some want to call it) is alive and well.  You don’t even have to believe me.  You can believe EPA Region 1 administrator Curt Spalding.  Take a look at what he had to say to a group at Yale University.

“Lisa Jackson [head of the EPA] has put forth a very powerful message to the country. Just two days ago, the decision on greenhouse gas performance standard and saying basically gas plants are the performance standard which means if you want to build a coal plant you got a big problem. That was a huge decision. You can’t imagine how tough that was. Because you got to remember if you go to West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and all those places, you have coal communities who depend on coal. And to say that we just think those communities should just go away, we can’t do that. But she had to do what the law and policy suggested. And it’s painful. It’s painful every step of the way.”

 Obama’s policies and the policies of his administrators like Lisa Jackson and Curt Spalding are aiding in the destruction of this country.  Let’s give him four more years so that we can really test our mettle trying to get our country back when he’s through.