Posted on 09/15/2016 4:48:57 PM PDT by Rockitz
Just when Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” comment set a new low for insensitivity, we saw another real zinger this week from former Clinton White House staffer William Galston.
In a smug Wall Street Journal op-ed, Galston deemed the “war on coal” a claim perpetuated by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to reinforce the coal community’s perceived “victimhood.”
Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, a few things have happened:
+ In 2008, President Obama promised, “If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them.”
+ The president’s subsequent MATS rule shut down at least 33 GW of coal-fired power in the United States.
+ His recently announced moratorium on federal coal leases locks up sizable portions of western coal reserves.
+ The new Stream Protection Rule (SPR)—written while the administration spent six years dodging its legal obligations to state mining agencies—could potentially eliminate half of existing U.S. coal mines.
+ And, the Clean Power Plan—currently stayed by a concerned Supreme Court—would likely eliminate 40 percent of America’s remaining coal fleet.
Even with this obvious, open-ended hostility from Washington, however, America’s coal communities are being told, “Sorry, natural gas simply outcompeted you.” And all of that even as the president simply made good on his 2008 promise.
Now we’re left with stark choices. Donald Trump has promised a “targeted review” of the Clean Power Plan because it “forces investment in renewable energy at the expense of coal and natural gas, raising electricity rates.” Hillary Clinton, in contrast, has praised President Obama’s efforts to keep fossil fuels “in the ground,” and wants to fully implement the Clean Power Plan.
Essentially, Clinton wants to end coal use, and Trump wants to defend it.
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Hillary will lose KY and WVA.
Wyoming’s Powder River Basin too.
PAlabama > MONSTER VOTE !
I definitely support coal miners and Hillary and the DNC (AND Obama) do not.
Yes, KY and WVA should send them packin’.
Just like gun owners are going to vote against Hillary as well.
Betcha the Coal Miner’s Union Bosses demanded everyone vote for Obama, twice!
Betcha they demand everyone vote for Hillary! “To protect their jobs!”
Commie union bosses should be swinging from lamp posts.
If I were “coal people”, just hearing Bill Clinton derisively utter those words would make my blood boil.
FUHC
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