[neverdem]

IMHO, all of coal country won't be kind to Obama.

[Steely Tom]

IMHO, all of coal country won't be kind to Obama.

I sure hope you're right. Have my doubts.

[Sacajaweau]

Or the oil country...or the gas country...I hope the GOP reminds us about Obama shutting down the Gulf....way beyond what was necessary.

[cherry]

this is BS...they elected him last time and put that bamey suporter in office....you have to understand that there are some areas that could care less what happens, they are going to vote for the crooked messiah no matter what.....

so prove me wrong West Virginia....prove me wrong Iowa....

[RegulatorCountry]

Anthropogenic global cooling was caused by the protective coal smoke layer, making wide swathes of hot lands habitable.

We’re all gonna drown due to melting glaciers because the fools made us stop using it.

[hattend]

Obama TOLD West Virginny that he was going to shut them down in 2008...and they voted for him anyway.

Did they smarten up? Doubt it.

[Cicero]

He promised to bankrupt the coal industry during the last campaign, and the suckers voted for him anyway.

[ml/nj]

ML/NJ

[momincombatboots]

With our own eyes we saw a vehicle w a coal bumper stticker right next to Obama 2012. I live here, don’t kid yourself about the union influence. In the end, it’s about the paycheck, um I mean workers safety. What alternative is being offered in the unions place?

[GeronL]

We can hope.

But Democrats/unions have a way of sticking together no matter what.

[gotribe]

Not gonna happen. They’ll be placated with more government handouts.

[Shady]

They had better not be. Has someone read Obamacare and determined whether or not they can exclude coverage for workers in certain “bad” industries like coal mining...”for the cost saving good of the State?” Just asking...

[!1776!]

It's not a war on coal, it is an out and out slaughter on on coal. War is too kind of a nametag. What the Obama adiminstration has proposed kills coal, plain and simple.

CSAPR, MATS, and the proposed CO2 regs make new coal projects impossible. Financing is unavailable since vendor will not guarentee performance numbers for new units. That is a result of testing methods not being able to accurately detect the levels required, and the fact that those limits have to be met almost always - no deviations.

For the proposed CO2 NSPS, coal requires CCS. CCS is not even commericially available. The bench test tehs are drawing 25% parasitic load. Buld a 400 MW plant, get only 300 MW out (less other parasitic loads).

Coal is dead if Obama has a second term. I don't trust unions, coal or not, to step up to the plate. I am afraid they will slit their own necks with an Obama vote. I hope I am wrong, but not an optomist tonight...

[toddausauras]

If we can’t win W.V. then I will cease to pay attention to politics.

[no dems]

Democratic pollster, Doug Schoen, said tonight on Hannity that the Obama team had “written off” West Virginia.