An audiotape of an interview Barack Obama did in January 2008 with The San Francisco Chronicle has surfaced in the final days of the presidential campaign. On the tape Obama tells the interviewer, “so if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can … It’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.” An Obama spokesman points out that later in the interview the candidate says that elminating coal as an energy source is “an illusion.”

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