Van Jones Claims: The Real War on Coal Is Fracking

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JONES: "I mean, it’s really unfortunate. First of all, there’s so much misinformation. This clean power plan, where did it come from? This conservative Roberts Court told the Bush Administration that the Clean Air Act and EPA required them to deal with greenhouse gases. This is coming from a right wing court and Richard Nixon. The Obama Administration tries to implement these rules, first they went to Congress and couldn't do it, tried to implement the rules administratively, and now they are saying these rules are why there’s been a war on coal. The plan was never implemented. You know what the real war on coal is? Fracking. Fracking brought the price of natural gas down so low, it displaced coal. These same guys say they want more fracking and more coal. That's literally economically impossible. If you have more fracking, coal gets more expensive and you have less coal. They are lying to the people. Fundamentally, what I want to say is this: This is another part of the crazy, and I am declaring war on crazy. I am a crusader against the crazy. My book is a cure for the crazy. I'm trying to get rid of the crazy so we can have real policy here."