Posted on 11/19/2016 3:16:30 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
I’ve tried to get some coal to burn in my woodstove overnight so I don’t have to get up and restoke it twice.
Even the local company with “Coal” in its name can’t get me any.
“miners in hard hats, who he said had been neglected under eight years of the Obama administration.”
Not “neglected,” actively attacked. And if all Trump can do is stop the further closing of mines due to oppressive federal regulations designed expressly to close down coal mines, then he would still be much, much better for coal country than Hillary.
“Get the EPA off of our backs, and we might be able to bring back some of the coal fired power plants”
If we put a fraction of the money into alternative uses for coal that we put in BS energy sources such as alcohol and solar, we’d be on a winning course.Burning coal is not the only way to capitalize on its’ enormous energy content
The book burners want you to believe the lies
While to rebuild its credibility, the NYT declares the Trump presidency a failure less than 2 weeks after he’s elected. Really?
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Obama shut them down. Therefore Trump, IN SOME RESPECT, needs to be involved in bringing them back online.
I don’t need lectures on the free market and the need to limit government.
Oh, don’t worry NY SLIMES. Trump will deliver. You lose.
Again.
NYT = Fake News
even if natural gas works better for us, we can still export our coal to other countries
If we bring back steel production, then we bring back a need for coal mining. Natural gas isn’t useful when it comes to producing large amounts of steel.
Why would we want to do that if nat gas is cleaner and cheaper?
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Think globally ,, CHINA needs our coal... and LOTS of it.
Coal is at the mercy of deregulation, which sounds like free market but really isn’t. If the onerous regulations placed on coal burning power plants were removed, then coal would do just fine.
While removing regulation supposedly allows price competition, it just as often allows large corporations to corner the market and result in no decrease in prices or results in an increase in prices.
So, the reasons for killing coal power plants are not necessarily good reasons. Oddly, the ecology concerns seem to be contradicted by the nation’s willingness to allow coal plants and the sale of coal to proliferate in overseas nations. It is odd that coal hurts the environment here but doesn’t over there. Strange.
Executive Order or bill passed reducing EPA funds to $0.
Any questions?
I once sat next to the National Sales manager for Babcock & Wilcox on a cross-country flight. We got to talking about the characteristics of various fuels and their relative efficiency in various applications. He summarized it thusly:
1. Petroleum products for mobile applications.
2. Natural gas for heating spaces and cooking food.
3. Coal to raise steam.
Admittedly, this was about fifty years ago and the equations have probably changed. But I wonder if coal has been surpassed in its primary role.
Liberalism is a mental disease racked with this kind of cognitive disonance.
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I first heard that description of Liberalism listening to Michael Savage over 10 years ago. He enjoyed making that observation rather frequently.
So if there are no jobs, explain what the purpose was for importing millions more unemployed into the country.
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To grow the Democrat Party’s voter base?
Did you apply online to be Trump’s energy secretary ? If not, it’s not too late.
I would like that too. It’s a pita.
Not only that. The new technologies in using coal for more that just burning needs to be deregulated. The Gov oversight must be burned to the ground. Let American do what Americans do. Innovate!!!
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