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Wheeling Intelligencer: China, India Not Cutting Coal Use

U.S. Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., visited China and India, to view for himself the miracles those two countries are allegedly performing in reducing carbon emissions and other forms of pollution.

What he quickly discovered was those who point to two of the world's top-four carbon emitters as fully embracing the environmentalist agenda are - whether they know it or not - spreading lies. Both China and India determined long ago coal is the most affordable way to bring electricity to their enormous populations. And both governments explain the international standards being tossed around would make it unaffordable to pull their poorest citizens into the modern age.

Even in communist China, a country that should have the governmental might to enforce whatever standards it wishes, officials told McKinley it is simply not feasible to install carbon capture and other technologies.

India - where officials openly said they planned to sign international climate change agreements but had no intention of adhering to them - has announced it will double its use of coal in coming years.

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