[Hot Tabasco]

I had to laugh at Hillary's solution to the closing down of the coal mines. Retrain them!

What do you retrain a 45 year old miner with a mortgage, a car note and possibly a kid or two in college and two more still in high school?

What do you train them to do in an area that is totally dependent on the coal mining industry?

Train them to be a skilled tradesman? In the UAW, such training requires an apprenticeship that encompasses 8000 hours of both classroom and on the job training. Typically, approx. 6 years......

In the meantime, what's going to happen to both the miner who lost his job and the town that depended on his employment?

[chimera]

A good number, if not most, of the ruinous (renewable) energy “jobs” are pretty crummy. It takes maybe 30 or 40 people to run a wind farm or solar array. Even those jobs are pretty lousy, riding around in pickup trucks cleaning solar panels, or climbing 300 foot tall towers that may burst into flames if the generator or power train catches fire. A lot of the other “hundreds of thousands” of jobs are salesmen, often door-to-door types, trying to convince elderly retirees to part with their nest eggs because they can get a 50% rebates on their taxes to pay for half of their PV or solar thermal system, and maybe realize a 20 or 30 year payback period, by which time the senior citizens will be dead.