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“Clean” Just Didn’t Cut It

By Tommaso Boggia - Oct 28th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

Our generation knows it: coal is not “clean,” it’s dangerous. Nonetheless, King Coal and Big Oil are not giving up. Realizing that people aren’t buying the “clean coal” lie, they are working on a new tagline: “Ultra Clean Fuels.”

Check out their cutesy video explaining just how environmentally friendly “Ultra Clean Fuels” are:

Transcript:

Isn’t it sad that we have to depend on foreign countries for our fuel oil?

Did you know that right here in the state of Pennsylvania we have over 33 billion tons of coal that can be turned in over 100 billion barrels of oil? And it’s cleaner, safer and cheaper to produce and consume than foreign oil.

And how will this coal-to-fuel affect our environment? Well, see for yourself! [girl disappears to reveal grassy lawn, possibly implying that coal-to-liquid will end up wiping out human civilization and restoring earth to how it was before]

Call the White House and ask why we don’t have this coal-to-fuel technology, or, go to our website, it’s our energy, it’s our future.

Despite how many grassy fields and superlatives you add in front of it, coal is still the dirtiest fossil fuel out there. To learn the truth about this disastrous coal-to-liquid technology, check out this NRDC video:

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