Clean coal! Yup, goes hand in hand with odorless BS.
I recall some old radio commercials. I think it was called Blue Diamond Coal, at least it was something like that. The commercials said it was clean coal because it was washed. And sure enough, you could pick up the little lumps without getting your hands real dirty. They were all shaped the same and cost quite a bit more than the dirty, lumpy stuff that the coal truck dropped down your coal Shute. But surprise, surprise, it burned just as dirty as unwashed coal.
Still, people bought it, thinking they would not get the walls and curtains all grimy with coal soot.
We sure do love getting ourselves fooled.
Curious Carl
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