Barack Obama actually said...

It was 4 years ago that President Obama told an interviewer in San Francisco if he was elected, he would bankrupt any companies attempting to build a coal-fired power plant and he would see to it that electricity costs would "necessarily skyrocket."

Context

Obama's statement on coal plants and electricity costs.

07/15/2012

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