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Originally Posted by hillbilly

Now I'm getting confused. Again, about a year ago ( give or take a month or two ) I remember Obama saying on TV that we needed to have a talk with China and try to convince them to lean towards clean coal technologies, and even sell the technology to them. I'm lost.

I don't know what it is that you're referring to but China is already using coal for a huge proportion of their energy needs. In the lead-up to the Beijing Olympics the government ordered periodic shut-downs of their factories to get a little smog out of the air. China, like the rest of the world, needs to move away from coal.

A year ago Bush was in the White House. I suppose it's possible that he offered to sell China some "clean coal technology" - as soon as such a thing actually exists.

John