Go watch this video: AL Gore - Coal to Liquid Technology

Is your Senator one of the 12 cosponsors? Is your representative one of the 30 cosponsors in the house? The list is so long I had to put it below the break!

Check the list and then start contacting them to register your disappointment. As Al Gore says, they are making "a horrible mistake" by co-sponsoring this massive corporate welfare subsidy for a disastrous energy policy.

Cross-posted at DailyKos

It looks like energy is going to be one of a growing number of areas of heavy legislative production this Congress (my piece yesterday).

Hardly a surprise, then, to find that Brer Obama should be showing a bit of leg to the coal boys (IL produces a lump or two) in cosponsoring two bills from Bunning (KY adds a lump or two itself) supporting the conversion of coal to oil (S 154 and S 155).

Got the tip from one skirmish in the ongoing ECO Wars:

Barack Obama co-sponsored, the Coal-to-Liquid Fuel Promotion Act of 2007 last week...