There is no clean coal...

Maybe not, but when you get right down to it, there is no clean electricity -- period. You can find a reason to object to just about every method of producing electricity that currently exists. Whether we're burning coal or natural gas and putting more CO2 into the air, or we're burning Uranium and creating radioactive waste, or we're damming rivers and killing fish and wreaking havoc on the environment, or putting acres of solar panels up just to power 3 houses, or erecting wind generators that kill birds and ruin the scenery out by Ted Kennedy's house -- there is no clean electricity.

So, what do we do? Could there be a clean way to use coal -- a resource we have in supplies enough to last for centuries without having to give all our money to politically and mentally unstable portions of the world? Do we invest money to try and find out -- or do we start running ads ridiculing the mere prospect in an effort to stifle the attempt to make us energy independent.

I guess you already know the answer to that...