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Country Ham House Hosts Huckabee

-- Colin -- 08/24/2007

This past Wednesday, Mike Huckabee stopped by the Country Ham House in Greenville, S.C.  I had a chance to ask the former Arkansas governor, fresh off his second-place finish in the Ames straw poll in Iowa, about the 1300-megawatt coal-fired plant our state utility Santee Cooper is proposing for Kingsburg.  Huckabee has publicly stated his support for "clean coal" technology. But if we hope one day to transition to "clean coal" technology, what do we do today about the "dirty coal" technology of Santee Cooper's proposed pulverized coal plant? Huckabee responded that the U.S. should increase its use of renewable energy - like solar - and, in his words, other "non-fossil fuel based" energy sources. He then mentioned the advancements being made at the Hydrogen Engine Center, which he recently visited in Iowa. Later on in his comment, Huckabee reiterated the connection between energy independence and national security, saying that we shouldn't be funding "despots" in the Middle East.