34: Coal
Encourage research and development of advanced technologies. Other Information:
Our Nation’s Energy Abundance -- Coal is a low-cost and abundant energy source with hundreds of years of supply. We look toward
the private sector’s development of new, state-of-the-art coal-fired plants that will be low-cost, environmentally responsible,
and efficient. We also encourage research and development of advanced technologies in this sector, including coal-to-liquid,
coal gasification, and related technologies for enhanced oil recovery. The current Administration – with a President who publicly
threatened to bankrupt anyone who builds a coal-powered plant – seems determined to shut down coal production in the United
States, even though there is no cost-effective substitute for it or for the hundreds of thousands of jobs that go with it
as the nation’s largest source of electricity generation. We will end the EPA’s war on coal and encourage the increased safe
development in all regions of the nation’s coal resources, the jobs it produces, and the affordable, reliable energy that
it provides for America. Further, we oppose any and all cap and trade legislation.
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