Soot's Axis of Evil
Coal regulators, speculators, mine owners, transporters & burners

Do you live near a soot producer?
    Luckily we don't.
The odds are you'll have emphysema.
    Chances are we won't.
Why was it built in your backyard?
    Did someone pay somebody off?
Is that tickle in your throat
    a CitiGroup-Peabody cough?

Have you heard which bank can't sleep?
    Soot speculator, Citigroup!
For Citi's Climate-Change Commitment
    is dwarfed by loans in which they stoop
To helping mining CEOs
    move mountains into mountain brooks,
Investing in more Big Coal burners,
    making sure the climate cooks.

Would you bail out a soot transporter –
    of coal for someone else to burn –
Although a coal-fired locomotive
    is a relic that they spurn?
Railroads find coal inefficient
    and too dirty for choo-choos.
But a Bush-blessed moneymaker
    power companies should use.

Good luck with your emphysema.
    Awful sorry 'bout your soot.
Which evil members of soot's axis
    would you like outlawed and caput?

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
1/10/09

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