If we can only get a Republican majority in Congress, all this nonsense will stop. We will be made whole again.
Wait...what?
Have to wonder where the miner’s unions are in all of this.
Still votin’ Democrat, and sending them money, I’m sure.
The coal industry miners lit the fuse that has finally come to kill it.
Everyone forgets that the original labor unions (socialists) came from the coal industry. From there, it spread until it reached its heyday around early this century. The majority ONLY voted Democrat no matter who was running and now they find that their liberal voting has brought the demise of the coal industry through liberal environmental regulations. They simply put themselves out of work...and now complain about it.
So you go to wind and solar along with huge subsidies. I call it the slice and bake solution. (How many birds were killed last year?)
Not a solution at all.
Get rid of the EPA first.
It ain’t going anywhere and will be back when we need it,likely at a higher cost as Soros and his coal buyers will demand more profit.
Don’t forget Barky’s campaign promise that if elected, he’d bankrupt power companies that use coal, and that electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket.
Barky was being honest back then.
Mark
Remember that in 2012 the Obama campaign made the deliberate strategic decision to write-off white working class voters.
Short answer: they don’t NEED the UMW any longer.
These radicals are so extreme that they even turned West VA into a solid republican state.
Complaining about the destruction of the coal industry accomplishes nothing. What is needed is for conservatives to work with business to completely reorder a revitalized industry.
Not only a major advance in mining technology, but an “uplifted class” of coal miners and their families. That is, more robotics and more pleasant jobs for the miners, with higher pay; and top notch private schools for their children, with pleasant places to live. On the production side.
And far better use of coal to generate energy on the other side. Such production will have to be at a much larger scale to afford such improved technology, and will likely be consolidated with other industries that consume its waste products.
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here