President Obama is giving new energy speeches around the country recently.   Unfortunately, Obama still considers something called “clean coal” to be a reality, and he’s still actively talking about it.  Actually “clean coal” is a PR phrase dreamed up by the coal industry, and it’s a product that doesn’t exist, so it is not something we should hear Obama talking about. (The U.S. can’t afford to help the poor with their heating costs, making up all kinds of excuses why that is, but it can and will spend billions pursuing the greenwashed  myth that coal might some day be “clean”.) Good thing Obama talks about other things that will really help the environment and somewhat delay climate change.  One of Obama’s more positive messages involves prodding businesses to buy and use more hybrids and electric cars. President Obama called on major U.S. companies Friday to purchase electric and hybrid vehicles, “part of a broad effort by the administration to reduce the country’s dependence on oil.” Note they no longer say “Oil and gas.” Gas used to be a fossil fuel too, but thanks to T. Boone Pickens and Sarah Palin, it’s now . . . something else. Something vaguely more [...]