Lamar Alexander wrong to side with Obama on coal - American Commitment

by Drew Johnson and Phil Kerpen
In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama explained his energy policy like this: “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad.” He went on to say: “So, if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can — it’s just that it will bankrupt them.”
That’s really bad news for Tennessee, which relies on coal-fired power plants for 53 percent of its electricity. Yet, shockingly, Sen. Lamar Alexander is siding with Obama and his “war on coal.”
Read the rest in The Tennessean and fight back at WarOnCoal.com!