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Obama declares a War on Coal
FoxNews.com ^ | 6/24/2013 | Phil Kerpen

Posted on 06/25/2013 10:56:12 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

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To: Standing Wolf

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81 posted on 06/25/2013 2:24:55 PM PDT by devolve (----- ----- ----- it not unlegal iffen I do*s it ----- ----- -----)
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To: pallis
Will America survive?

NO!

A civil war is coming and the left is doing everything it can to provoke a start. The left wants badly and wants it soon, thinking they can then build their utopia. It will be horrible beyond imagination.

But they don't realize they will lose.

82 posted on 06/25/2013 2:25:37 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (The Gubment Has No Legitimacy. It needs to be Removed!)
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To: ArrogantBustard
Sure ... But you started out talking about those who depend on coal production. They're not the problem. The problem is amongst those dependent on coal consumption.

The producers can sell their coal to China who is a big consumer. The U.S. coal fired plants and their customers are dependent on coal to provide electricity in the short term and at a reasonable price. They have no real alternative, so they are the most dependent on coal production.

Obama's war is on the coal fired power plants not directly on the coal miners. Though I imagine he will get to the miners soon enough.

83 posted on 06/25/2013 2:26:26 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: RoosterRedux

Coal Use:
http://www.wvcoal.com/coal-facts-2012.html

“US coal use falling fast; utilities switch to gas

Share of US power from coal at lowest level on record as use of cleaner natural gas grows”
Associated Press
By Jonathan Fahey, AP Energy Writer | Associated Press – Tue, Jun 12, 2012
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-coal-falling-fast-utilities-173126367.html

“The uptick, virtually all of it attributable to rapid economic expansion in China and India, comes even as the U.S. continues to experience decreases in coal use for electricity generation amid the availability of cheap and plentiful natural gas — which has a smaller carbon footprint than coal when burned.

Without even including India and China, however, the drop in U.S. coal consumption is easily negated by a commensurate uptick in coal use elsewhere in the world. And adding in those two countries, whose voracious appetite for cheap electricity has altered the global coal market over the last decade, presents what the IEA’s executive director, Maria van der Hoeven, called “a troubling paradox.”

“To the degree that affordable coal has allowed hundreds of millions of people in emerging economies to enjoy the conveniences that the industrialized world began taking for granted long ago, its proliferation is a blessing,” van der Hoeven wrote in commentary accompanying the release of the report. “Yet for a society increasingly concerned about the amount of carbon it is sending into the atmosphere, the surge in coal burning is not good news.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/18/coal-consumption-iea-report_n_2321026.html


84 posted on 06/25/2013 2:29:45 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Confidential to West Virginia: feeling good about voting for Manchin? Now what was that promise???


85 posted on 06/25/2013 2:33:25 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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To: RoosterRedux
A couple days before the 2008 election, the airwaves of Western PA were inundated with adverts about Obama going after coal and they (unionista's) didn't listen here.
I wonder if they are waking up YET?
86 posted on 06/25/2013 3:10:10 PM PDT by Ghost of SVR4
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To: ArrogantBustard
Don't forget they voted for Dubya in 2000 and I think 2004. Back in 2000 the most troublesome issue the voters related to was Gore and his anti-gun agenda.

As my divorce lawyer in West Virginia said at that time "You start messing with a West By God Virginian's gun, you lose his (and her) vote."

87 posted on 06/25/2013 3:13:18 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (I love my country; I don't like its government)
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To: morphing libertarian

True. I haven’t forgotten that he promised to bankrupt them so this news doesn’t surprise me in the least.


88 posted on 06/25/2013 3:14:26 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (I love my country; I don't like its government)
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Such actions have long-term effects exacerbated by the time and cost of reconstituting power sources.


89 posted on 06/25/2013 3:23:54 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Impeach this dumb ass yesterday !

Doom on Obama and all who help him....


90 posted on 06/25/2013 3:25:25 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: MrB

I’ve come to the conclusion that way more than half the people in this country don’t like obama. But the obama loving press doesn’t report it. It only puts out government approved information. Just like under any dictatorship.

This also proves, to me, that voter fraud is a lot worse than anyone could imagine. And if they can illegally elect an illegal president, they can put whomever they want in the congress.

Why does the GOP not stand up to him? Because, to me, it proves they’re being blackmailed.

Might as well accept it.


91 posted on 06/25/2013 3:30:18 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: RoosterRedux

It was just announced the Army is getting rid of a bunch of brigades through 2017. That’s 80,000 soldiers without jobs and who knows how many who support those brigades.


92 posted on 06/25/2013 3:34:47 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: VerySadAmerican
Well, Obama has unilaterally declared the Jihadi War over. Of course, the Jihadis are still at war with us.

But then our president is a traitor.

Hey, is that the IRS knocking at the door?

93 posted on 06/25/2013 3:39:24 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (You can't eat Sharia)
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To: RoosterRedux

Great....my electricity costs will skyrocket since we’re heavily dependent on coal.


94 posted on 06/25/2013 3:39:51 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: himno hero

Good question! NO, he wouldn’t DARE! But his aim is to cut America down to size and make us small, poor and impotent. Unfortunately, there are a LOT of stupid voters out there, not to mention the idiots who vote twice, the cemetery vote, etc...we are screwed at this point.....


95 posted on 06/25/2013 3:43:06 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: RoosterRedux

Well, O said before the ‘08 election that his policies would cause energy prices to increase. And.... people still voted for him.


96 posted on 06/25/2013 4:25:32 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Phillyred

Yes, he’s for making the little guy dependent on the public tit.


97 posted on 06/25/2013 4:47:52 PM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: RoosterRedux

98 posted on 06/25/2013 5:30:13 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: RoosterRedux
The more American Coal plants shut down, the cheaper coal is and the more Chinese coal plants open.

Once again, a decision by Obama favors Communists.

This is the results of his January 7 2012 Decrees thru the EPA:

99 posted on 06/25/2013 6:20:16 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Frank_2001

He wants us to be what he understands.... a backwards shit hole nation, without technology, without education, without a economy.

By cutting America down, he is removing peace stability and prosperity from the globe. Desperate people without order do stupid things. This is what world wars are made of.

He promised a revolution.

It will come at a HUGE cost, globally. And his religion? Islam will make it very bloody.


100 posted on 06/26/2013 7:40:57 AM PDT by himno hero (hadnuff)
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