Coal propaganda hits the airwaves

[4dsc]

I just caught the tail end of a coal commercial on the TV tube. Its list the website of http://learnaboutcoal.org/ This is a very disturbing propaganda site. They are attempting to claim coal is a "clean energy source". Nothing could be further from the truth!!

[DeadManInc]

1. I seen a commercial for this a few weeks back.

They were advertising clean burning coal.

[skipos]

2. I saw this BS too.

Are people dumb enough to buy into it?

[enlightenment]

3. These have been running for a while -- did you see the

one with the adults or the even more disturbing ones where they use children to spew the message? One has a girl, maybe 11 or 12, studying at a desk; the other is a slightly older teenage boy. It's very "Brave New World".

ewwh.

[struggle4progress]

4. Is it so-called "Americans for Balanced Energy Choices"?

They've run ad campaigns like this in the past:

Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC)

Formed in 2000 to develop grass-roots support for coal-based electricity, Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) is a coalition of mining companies, coal transporters, and electricity producers. Members include Peabody Holding, Inc., Burlington Northern/Santa Fe, and Southern Company (The Washington Post, March 25, 2001). According to the coalition's website, electricity from coal is "essential, affordable, and increasingly clean." The U.S. coal-based electricity industry is ABEC's primary funder (www.balancedenergy.org) <more>

http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/issueads/organizations/americans_for_balanced_energy_choices.htm

Southern Company owns nuclear reactors in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi -- yet another nuke company promoting coal! Anybody who believes that giving the nuclear companies bigger subsidies will eliminate coal use hasn't considered the multiple relations between these industries ...

[skids]

5. Yeah, I diaried on it...

...here: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/27/43638/7548

[Sequoia]

6. My lord, they're using children. Children!

Slugs. Clean air my eye.