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Like this:

We must continue changing the way America generates electric power through even greater use of clean coal technology...

So nice of those 39 House members to help W out a little with his speech. Broadcast of tonight's SOTU brought to you by Americans for Balanced Energy Choices!

And then there's this:

President Bush is committing $2 billion over the next three years to create a new international clean energy technology fund to help confront climate change worldwide. Along with contributions from other countries, this fund will increase and accelerate the deployment of all forms of cleaner, more efficient technologies in developing nations like India and China, and help leverage substantial private-sector capital by making clean energy projects more financially attractive.

That's like, what? A little over $1 per Chinese? Or about 1.7 GW worth of GE steam turbines. A tiny fraction of the total the Chinese will purchase from us to generate electricity from all those new coal fired power plants they're planning to build. It's the thought that counts, I suppose.