Shameless Magic Buggy Whip Industry Demanding Yet More Special Favors

Hey, KY lege: if you're gonna hand out millions in tax dollars to every deadbeat who asks, I'd like to demand a law requiring every business in Kentucky to buy ad space on my blog.

A Louisville company that's planning to build a coal-to-natural gas manufacturing plant in western Kentucky wants a state law that would require utilities to buy electricity from facilities like theirs.

A reprehensive (sic - ohmydog now THAT's a freudian slip for the ages) of the Erora Group told a legislative committee Thursday that it would be able to complete financing for its Cash Creek Project if utilities were compelled to buy electricity from producers of renewable and alternative forms of energy.

The Cash Creek Project is designed to gasify 2.8 million tons per year of Kentucky coal to produce natural gas that would be sold through an interstate pipeline and burned to produce electricity.

The House has already passed a separate bill that would let one of its business partners condemn private property for a pipeline that would send its carbon dioxide to Texas to be used to help extract oil and natural gas from the ground there.

Also, I'd like a few hundred million bucks in subsidies to start my unicorn ranch. Unicorns being slightly more realistic than labeling any kind of coal-based energy as "clean," "renewable" or "alternative."