OBAMA SAYS HE WILL BANKRUPT COAL PLANTS

Tweet CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- "With only hours before election day, coal has become a major topic of Decision 2008.

Sunday comments surfaced from a taped interview Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama did

• with the San Francisco Chronicle in January.

• In the interview, which has been available online for months,

Obama talks about the importance of coal. He went on to talk about

• his cap and trade proposal to help curb global warming.

• "If somebody wants to build a coal power plant they can, it's just that

• it will bankrupt them because they are going to be charged a huge sum for

all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted," Barack Obama said to the San Francisco Chronicle in January."...