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GE: Coal Never Looked So Sexy

By Kevin Grandia
Created 2008-04-15 10:42
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Forget "clean coal." Energy giant General Electric [7] thinks coal is downright sexy.

This "coal-is-so-clean-its-sexy ad" was pulled by General Electric a while back, but it goes to show just how far some will go to sell clean coal.

Strange choice of music for the ad -  "Sixteen Tons" by Merle Travis [8] is a song about the misery of coal mining.

 

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