| Lump of coal a good thing, group believes |
| By Jim Snyder |
| December 19, 2007 |
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A group that promotes coal as an energy source wants to put a new spin on what it means to get a lump of the stuff in your stocking.
Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC) is sending 30 Santas to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to deliver stockings filled with coal-shaped chocolate.
  <a href='http://ad.thehill.com/adclick.php?n=a5f6dd33' target='_blank'><img src='http://ad.thehill.com/adview.php?what=zone:33& n=a5f6dd33' border='0' alt=''></a> The goal of the campaign is to shift coal ’s image as a key contributor to global warming to a relatively cheap and increasingly clean provider of electricity. With supplies sufficient to turn the lights on for another 250 Christmases, coal should remain a mainstay of power generation, ABEC believes.
“We need to understand that coal needs to be an important part of a balanced strategy to provide energy that is efficient and secure, keeps the economy healthy and protects the environment, ” ABEC executive director Joe Lucas said in a statement.
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