Posted on 11/22/2008 1:16:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
Bill Raney considers coal golden. After all, the black rock fuels half of the nation's electrical generation.
But the West Virginia Coal Association's president and others in the industry say they've received mixed messages about president-elect Barack Obama's support for coal-fired power.
Obama and vice president-elect Joe Biden both have said they support finding cleaner ways to burn coal. But during the campaign, Obama told a newspaper that electricity rates could soar under his energy plan, while Biden told a voter in Ohio that "we're not supporting clean coal" - though he has said the U.S. should develop clean coal technology and export it to China.
"I think there's a great deal of pensiveness," Raney said.
Others, including Obama's camp, say they see little reason to worry.
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Whistling past the graveyard...
Wow... talk about a day late and a prayer short.
“prayer late and a day short?” ;)
A simpleton wishes.
They could start a band: ‘Ex pensive ex coalminers”. Nice vote, guys.
We have enough coal to power our cities until hell freezes, for all the good it will ever do us....
What was the 'Thug-elect's' statement about "Sure, you can build a coal plant, but it will be expensive..." [paraphrased].
I have no pity for them.
Don’t forget the vast Utah deposits of a very-clean-burning coal were declared off-limits when Clinton made the area a “national parkland”. Indonesia has the only other large deposits of this kind of coal. Indonesians also got caught funnelling gobs of cash to Clinton. Strange coincidence, that.
Pensive? Pensive?? He said he wants to bankrupt anyone who tries to start a coal mine and they’re...pensive?? Panicked would be the proper reaction.
Oh, then they did not hear the big “O” when he plainly said that he meant to flat “bankrupt” the coal industry with emissions taxes, and that electricity would “of necessity” shoot through the roof in cost. Hello?!! - and still they supported him. I suppose they thought he was just lying that time . . . what if the lie is leveled at them instead of his environmental base? More likely, that.
Oh, I know that coal mining is not the most glamorous sort of job and I wish I could get every coal miner to do another job; but I have to consider the idea that maybe some people simply LIKE their jobs even if it isn’t what I would think they need to be doing. - Can anybody say, “ready for REALLY high electric bills, Obamabots?!”
And yet the sheep voted for him. Unbelievable.
The mineworkers leadership were all on board with BHO. Of course, union leaders dont lose their jobs. Only the suckers who support them by paying dues.
If the suckers don’t work, what use are the unions or their leaders? Who then pays the union thugs? I know: zerO does.
No survivors.
I don't, either. The UMW turned handsprings for Obortion. Let him shut them down. They can cry to their Savior for help (unemployment).
Ohbomba says he's going to bankrupt operators of coal plants. He's a closet anti-nuke. So he says we have to develop "renewable" power, presumably pipe dreams like wind and solar. Wind doesn't work when the wind doesn't blow and solar doesn't work at night, which, last I checked, occurred a least once a day for about half the hours in a day. At most, if fully developed, those will supply maybe 20%-25% of our needs on an intermittent basis. So where do we go for the other 75%-80%? Odouchebag doesn't say. I think he's probably pretty much brainless when it comes to energy matters.
The people that voted for him are the same ones that mostly depend on coal for their heating and a lot of them live in the coldest parts of the country.
The Unions get what they deserve, especially the UAW.
Pray for W, Palin and Our Troops
“Pensive???”
They ought to be downright terrified about the likelihood of their economic lifeblood being drained out of them.
That’s like being pensive about having given birth. The fun is just beginning.
Hey someone should tell the Coal Workers to get their PAC board leader the f**k out of dodge and start backing candidates who wont pack the unemployment lines with coal workers. When that happens, then I’ll give a sh*t about their plight.
Don’t worry Coal Guys! Once Obama bankrupts your industry, you can just apply for a bailout like everyone else.
“Coal industry ‘pensive’ about Obama”
Yet, the United Mine Workers Unions still voted for him over McCain.
Cry me a river.
Mixed messages? I guess I didn’t hear the other side, where Obama said, “The hell with Global Warming! Full speed ahead! Clean Coal! Nuclear! Offshore drilling!
Must have missed that part. I just heard the part about putting on carbon caps and bankrupting the industry.
Why do people continually hope these guys won’t do what they say they are going to do?
They said they were going to export all the polluting industries overseas, and they have to a large extent.
Forget coal, and next on the horizon, exporting our agriculture.
Maybe McCain should have called for an investigation on voter fraud here. It’s just amazing that these people would just take these comments and vote dem anyway. The whole election was probably won by fraud.
I suspect there was voter fraud across the board. Nothing will come of it as our Justice Department seems to fear riling the masses more than it feels the need to enforce the law. There are so many fronts that should be investigated yet there seems to be no will to bother. ACORN; illegal campaign contributions (foreign money involved; many contributions at the $200 limit but with the same names so no need to report them; disabling the program that would match names and credit card numbers for Internet contributions); birthplace controversy; shady real estate deals, etc., etc., etc. The list of illegality is endless. No one who has control over the possible investigation of all this corruption seems to care.
OK, so our electric bill go up, up, up...and we just purchased one of those economical EdenPur heaters. Can't win for losing with these people. I wish they didn't hate western culture so much.
I see an increase in prosecutions for timber trespass.
Yes you dumb@$$e$ your union told you to vote for him to benefit them not you! How stupid can you be?
“PENSIVE??” You guys are going to be out of work soon. You should have researched this Kenyan like many of us did, there was enough information from the get-go that told us what we needed to hear.
Now we will all pay the price—dearly. And thanks a lot for following your union bosses orders. NOT.
They voted for him even after they were told.
Did you all vote today on World net Daily regarding Obama’s birth certiificate.
It needs your vote...
West Virgina is very close to DC. So is Pennsylvania. Get 100,000 coal miners and families members march on those pukes and tell them what’s what
The people voted for him, let them freeze in the dark. What better way to de-industrialize the U.S. than to stop mining the fuel that supplies half of our electriciy. Next, firewood sales and woodstoves will be banned on the federal level, and you will have to pay capital gains tax on your backyard vegetable garden.
The miners will march for Obama. They are part of the 95% waiting for their tax cut.
There’s real money to be made in government generated scarcity.
“Can anybody say, “ready for REALLY high electric bills, Obamabots?!””
That’s assuming that electricity is available. Knock out half of the supply, and you will only get electricity half the time. Can you say “rolling blackouts” and “electricity rationing”?
Yeah, it’s going to be a lot of fun when NYC, Chicago, and L.A. only get electricity for a few hours every day.
A lot of people are going to be out of work soon, not just union lackies. Hard to work without energy for production.
Yes, I know it, this is what makes it so frustrating and why it is important to be an INFORMED voter. God help and guide us.
Well, we got our wood stove and oil lamps back during the Y2K thing. I cooked dinner tonight in the wood stove coals. Sigh. Guess I need to get used to figuring out some other way to wash clothes other than in my little automatic washer and dryer. - I don’t have a large pressure canner, only a small one, but I guess I’ll need to get serious about doing stuff the hard way like my grandma did. I’m a step ahead in that I do have a small clothesline on my side porch. I guess one of those wash tubs with a manual wringer on it will do . . . We have deer out here and the river is just down back of us for fishing. I’m getting chickens soon for the eggs and some for meat (if I can get my husband to deal with that). My grandma used to grab up one of her chickens, wring its neck, scald and pluck it, and cook it right up. Gulp . . . . . I guess I’ll make deer jerky and can some as well . . . already have the organic raised bed garden, stored wheat, corn, powdered milk . . . sigh . . . I’m too old for this nonsense . . .
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