You can bring back the coal industry in Pittsburgh, but not the steel industry. Back in 1880 when the steel industry in America was taking off, it took three tons of coal to every ton of ore to make steel. So because of transport costs, the mills were located near the coal fields and they brought the ore to them. That’s why there were historically no steel mills in northern Minnesota.
Since the 1920s, increased efficiency in the process requires only about one ton of coal per ton of ore to make steel. It no longer makes sense to locate the mills on the coal fields. Instead, if you’re going to bring back the American steel industry, it makes sense to do so on the south shore of Lake Michigan, where you can ship the ore by freighter down the lakes and bring the coal a short distance by rail from southern Illinois or Indiana.
I would have expected a businessman to know this.
Apparently Trump is going to bring Joe Paterno back too.
Specialty steel (pipes for one product example) WAS making a comeback due to the fracking/drilling on the Marcellus Shale. If your in PA, I will concede that Corbett had many faults BUT his support of the energy industry in western PA brought a lot of jobs. The Dem Gov. Wolf thinks we should be more like upstate New York...cause who wants jobs?
Domestics need steel and new manufacturing methods is much smaller, efficent and can be located pretty much anywhere.
A group wanted to set up a smaller mill in Escanaba Mi. Less than 60 miles from the mines, and directly on the docks for Lake Mi.
The eco fruit piece of shit Bart the Mother Effn Fart Stupaks buddies stopped it.
Now the paper mill there is in danger of closing since Verso has filed Chaptr 11. And that closes, the whole place will be a ghost town.
At this time Trump is not a businessman. He's a politician, who will say anything to anyone if he thinks that's what they want to hear.
Maybe he was speaking metaphorically.