WTF!??!?!

Is this the answer?

So I like to keep up with politics and in response to questions about energy sources and the environment, our esteemed dumbass (the president) wants to look into using coal more. WTF?!?!? Coal? Coal? This is the wave of the future. That stuff that used to be used in trains (producing the large billowing cloud of black smoke behind it)? You've got to be kidding me? How does this help the environment? Furthermore one of the things behind this is that oil is a finite resource...so coal is infinite? I am a constant contender that G.W. is one of the stupidest people who has ever played a hand in determining our fates, but coal? It's even called the FutureGen Initiative. Instead of looking into solar power or using water or even exploring cold fusion we are going to power our future with coal. Perhaps I'm crazy, maybe that's what the problem is. It seems to me that I recall Coalminers being the dudes who took the canary with them because there was a danger of the gas in the air killing them. I know for a fact that silicosis is health problem that coal miners had to risk. But c'mon, I could have went along with everyone switching to woodburning stoves or putting our batteries in the refrigerator. Think of it this way...fossil fuel is the wave of the future. That doesn't even sound right. Bush, it's time for you to meet my friends, I call them dark alley and bag of nickels. Even worse is the fact that GE has followed up with a commercial promoting this. Filled with images of sexy model types in a coal mine like that shit is fun! The salt in the wound is the fact that they are playing Hank Williams' Sixteen Tons in the backround. That could be one of the worst ways to use that song. For those who don't know...the song describes, in part, how coal miners were basically indentured servants. Peep the chorus...

You load 16 tons and whaddaya get??
another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don'tcha call me 'Cause-
I can't go...I owe my soul to the Company Store

The best I could equate this to would be me going to a ceremony in honor of the folks who died at The Alamo and playing the Deguello. Also known as "The Cutthroat Song" (actually a favorite of mine). This what the Mexican Army played at the Battle of the Alamo...it means there will be no quarter, no mercy shown to the losers. If you don't recall everyone at the Alamo was killed. I have other beefs on this choice of song per commercial topic but I'll let it rest for now.

I know that people in positions of power often have "Yes" men around them, but I hope someone stood up in that meeting and challenged this idea. If someone is sane they explained that thinking of the future is not moving towards things that we have been moving away from. That's not Sankofa. At least someone gave hima WTF look and walked out of the room shaking their head. Coal? Coal! No matter what punctuations I follow that up with I can't get it to make sense for me. I know Bush is stupid but the fact is I'm hearing this is being supported. I keep looking up information to see if I'm just biased but I can't find a good reason to justify this initiative. COAL!?!?!