Check out the advertisement on The Star's page A7.

       Full page, color, with pictures of the smiling visages of Vladimir Putin, Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

    "Why are these men smiling?" the ad asks.

     Answer: "Because the recent decision by the Sebelius Administration means Kansas will import more natual gas from countries like Russia, Venezuela, and Iran."

      Ouch. We told you this coal plant fight is going to get worse before it gets better.

      The ad is paid for by Kansans for Affordable Energy, a group headquartered in Garden City, Kansas (although it lists its mailing address in Topeka.)

     The chairman -- Bob Kreutzer -- tells Prime Buzz the ads, which were also purchased in Wichita and Hutchinson, were an attempt to provide the "complete story" about the issue.

      Kreutzer would not say how much his group paid for the ads, nor how much it has raised. 

      He said the primary funders for his group, which filed its organization papers Oct. 17, 2007, are Sunflower Electric, which wants to build the two 700 megawatt plants coal-fired plants in western Kansas, and Peabody (Energy), which bills itself as the world's biggest private-sector coal company.

       No response yet from Sebelius.