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Coal Company Layoffs Affect Hundreds Of Families (EPA's first victims)
WCYB.com ^ | February 1, 2012 | Drew Hinesley

Posted on 02/01/2012 6:15:17 PM PST by Timber Rattler

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To: Timber Rattler

Congress should defund th EPA.


21 posted on 02/01/2012 6:56:01 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Congress should defund the EPA.


22 posted on 02/01/2012 6:56:12 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: JackOfVA

***The article says it’s metallurgical coal, not bituminous coal.***

I know the difference between Bituminus, sub-bituminus, anthricite and lignite.

But what is metallurgical coal?


23 posted on 02/01/2012 6:59:16 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Timber Rattler

The unemployment checks will stimulate the economy. Thanks Obama. /S


24 posted on 02/01/2012 7:07:32 PM PST by FishinTX (Annoy liberals, VOTE NEWT.)
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To: KoRn

I went to Virginia Tech and graduated in 1999.


25 posted on 02/01/2012 7:07:47 PM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: cherry

The more I see the claim that the country deserves the government they get, the more I believe it. I feel no sympathy or rage now...I know longer feel American either; just some throwback from years ago.

May they all rot in the situation they brought this country to.


26 posted on 02/01/2012 7:14:12 PM PST by Outlaw Woman (The 2nd Amendment IS my concealed carry permit)
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To: Timber Rattler; All
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27 posted on 02/01/2012 7:23:30 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: JackOfVA

My guess is the drop in the demand for metallurgical coal is from China.


28 posted on 02/01/2012 7:45:59 PM PST by meatloaf
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To: Timber Rattler
Flag obama's America side Pictures, Images and Photos
29 posted on 02/01/2012 8:45:12 PM PST by GR_Jr. (ABR / AB0 (Anybody but Romney, and then Anybody but 0bama))
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To: Steve Newton
"Wait until we can’t even afford our electric bills."

O or his handlers planned all this to happen. It is working perfectly for them and him.

He wanted to end coal power, he wanted to end health care in the hands of individuals, he planned to divide the country and has worked for all those goals.
It is working, and when he wins again and SCOTUS is under his control we are done as a republic the founders wanted and planned for us.
30 posted on 02/01/2012 10:28:10 PM PST by JSteff ((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
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To: KoRn

Is the Dairy Queen still around in Pearisburg? LOL My first wife was born in Blacksburg and raised in Ripplemead I think was the name in the 1960’s. When we’d go see her folks first stop was the Dairy Queen in Pearisburg.


31 posted on 02/01/2012 10:52:40 PM PST by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: cva66snipe

I don’t get to Pearisburg often, but I’m pretty sure I saw the DQ on Main St. the last time we passed through there.


32 posted on 02/02/2012 12:04:25 AM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

coke?


33 posted on 02/02/2012 12:49:11 AM PST by Domangart
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To: Doogle

Rumors have it that he no longer could stand the competition, that’s why he had Bin Laden taken out.


34 posted on 02/02/2012 2:31:22 AM PST by saintgermaine
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To: JSteff

Well

If it comes to that we may have something to say about our Republic.

Smile


35 posted on 02/02/2012 6:36:13 PM PST by Steve Newton (And the Wolves will learn what we have shown before-We love our sheep we dogs of war. Vaughn)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Metallurgical coal is low-ash, low-sulfur bituminous coal. In particular, it should be low in phosphorous and sulfur. It’s usually converted to metallurgical coke by heating in an sealed oven to drive off the volatiles.

The resulting coke is used in blast furnaces as a reducing agent and fuel. The low phosphorous and low sulfur contents are desirable to avoid contaminating the pig iron.


36 posted on 02/03/2012 8:57:46 AM PST by JackOfVA
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To: meatloaf

Could well be - there’s hardly any domestic steelmaking industry left.


37 posted on 02/03/2012 8:59:57 AM PST by JackOfVA
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To: Outlaw Woman
“Virginia was won by Democratic nominee Barack Obama by a 6.3% margin of victory.” Does anything else need to be said?

The stinking blue-bellies in NoVa and Richmond probably don't even know that coal is mined in Virginia, or that they directly benefit from that coal. They just wanna be "green".

38 posted on 02/03/2012 9:04:08 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: JackOfVA

***Metallurgical coal is low-ash, low-sulfur bituminous coal***

What is the average BTU/LB of this coal? We used 8400 Btu Wyoming coal in our power plant. Low ash, low sulfur sub-bituminous.

I use a high BTU Oklahoma coal in my blacksmithing work.


39 posted on 02/03/2012 9:20:13 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: ArrogantBustard

It’s stunning isn’t it?


40 posted on 02/03/2012 10:03:57 AM PST by Outlaw Woman (The 2nd Amendment IS my concealed carry permit)
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