“Again, I was KIDDING.”
“Coal is gone. Nobody, except the Chinese want to use it anymore to make electricity.”
Maybe East-coast coal is dead but it’s alive and well out here in the west (and Montana has $1,000,000,000 (that’s a billion) in cash, securities and other investments in our ‘Coal Tax Trust Fund’ which cannot be spent without 75% majority of each house and signed by the Governor. 12 coal trains rumble through my town every day. Or is it 24? They just increased the number last year...
Are all those coal trains going to Tacoma to be shipped on a boat to China? Yes, I understand that. The BNSF and UP railroads love that haul/business.
I am a lumber broker. We(my company)buy lumber from Thompson River in Thompson Falls. Stoltz in Columbia Falls. Weyerhaeuser in Kalispell(formerly Plum Creek). RY Timber in Livingston and Townsend. Pyramid in Seeley Lake. Plus Idaho Forest Products and just about every other major sawmill in the Pacific NW US and Canada.
My company sells Western Building Centers and several other lumber yard and truss plants in your state. In between our exchanges today I just sold two trucks of lumber to Coeur D’Alene and 4 trucks into Boise.
Actually, up around Hayden Lake, ID would be another place I would consider moving to.
I once was on a United Flight that had to make an emergency landing in Billings. I spent a few hours in the airport. Then caught a flight out to Spokane.
I have driven the Lewis & Clark trail over the Lolo Pass down to Missoula a couple times. I drank beer from a glass boot at a brewery in Missoula at a bar that used to be a train station. I was so drunk that night, I locked the doors on my rental car, but left the windows open in the parking lot of my hotel in Missoula. I left my briefcase and camera on the front passenger seat. It was still there the next morning.
Where do you live in Montana?
I heard there are only two things from Montana. Steers and queers. I don’t see no horns on you boy! :)