Which creates more jobs?
1) Building new, cleaner sources of energy.
2) Keeping dirty, old plants running on coal shipped in from other states.
Which fuel source would you prefer?
1) Forces of nature like the wind and sun that have zero delivery costs.
2) Black rocks that have enormous extraction and delivery costs, including water pollution, spreading carcinogens, destroying mountains, destroying farmland and giving miners black lung.
Which energy source would you rather pay for?
1) Expensive and heavily subsidized clean coal experiments.
2) Cheaper wind power that will actually be clean.
These questions are easy. But, Illinois politicians keep giving the wrong answers. We need energy policies and economic development plans that aren't designed by coal industry executives.