When it comes to war, the measurement of a policy should be its effectiveness, not its intentions. If the intention is energy independence, one must measure the effectiveness in reaching the goal as to whether or not it will work.
Clean coal will work, technically. The reason that it may not work would be in the politics of implementing it. The far left has a substantial number of people convinced that it is still too dirty. Clean coal may still have some issues, but these issues are manageable. In other words, it can be an effective way toward the goal of energy independence, but it isn't perfect.
Nobody has discovered the perfect means of energy. All known energy sources have their costs of some kind. If no perfect means of energy production is ever found, we will be at the mercy of the Islamic Jihadists. We won't have a relatively peaceful way of fighting back. That relatively peaceful way would be an economic type of war that I mentioned in an earlier post. That is, if that means of way is rejected too, because it isn't perfect.
We are subsidizing the Muslim enemy. Time to stop subsidizing them. If they are truly the strong horse that Osama bin Laden believed the world will follow, they would find another way to power their civilization. If we can't power ours without them and their energy resources, which at the moment is oil, they will enslave us all. Our biggest enemy, then, is the left wing's insistence upon perfection. It is perhaps beyond our reach. The left's insistence upon perfection in energy production is truly the enemy of the good, if you believe that the Western way of life is better than the Islamic way.
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