[Mmogamer]

There goes our power bills... through the roof...

[wk4bush2004]

Prepare for our energy costs to skyrocket, people!

It’s good that West Virginia went McCain/Palin, but why did Pennsylvania (which has so many coal miners) go for TOTUS?

Coal is still a very important industry in PA; it bewilders me how PA still went for TOTUS, even after what he said about the coal industry.

I hope people realize now that he wasn’t kidding.....

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep. Said this yesterday. How many communities will this destroy? How many generations have been in the mining biz?

[Iam1ru1-2]

Hussein Obama doesn’t want to help America out of a crisis, he’s promoting it so that he can use the power of the gov’t to supposedly get us out of it, but this naive, incompetant, illinois senator knows only the tactics of Chicago...Bully everybody, using his communicator skills to say how bad everything is so that he can use the lie that the only way for America to survive is through “Bigger Gov’t”, taking over banks, businesses, even wallstreet. But being a professional communicator “does not a good president make” as Yoda would put it. If Obama lasts through this year, it will be a miracle because he’s keeps telling everyone that the state of the nation is bad, bad, bad, and now “The chickens have come home to roost” as his mentor and pastor said about America about 9/11.... and so it is......or as Jean-Luc Picard would say it.....”let it be so”.

[Viking2002]

'– Institute for Energy Research President (IER) Thomas J. Pyle issued the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to place a strict and indefinite moratorium on new mountaintop mining projects—a decision about which Democratic Gov. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and others in the Appalachian region are “very concerned.”

“President Obama has made his intentions to bankrupt the coal industry clear. EPA’s actions this week demonstrate that he will wage a war against the energy source that generates half of America’s electricity and is our nation’s most abundant, reliable, and affordable energy resource.'

This may have just been the spark that finally lights the fire. When I was a kid, we'd trip over coal running up and down the ridges back home. We'd dig into surface seams with our fingernails. These mountain Appalachian communities have been left behind for decades, and yanking away the one reliable resource they've had to fall back on in that time may well start a civil insurrection.

[rockinqsranch]

Obama stated during the campaign that he intended to bankrupt the coal industry. W.Virginians still voted for the bastard. Now he is following through with his promise to bankrupt them, put them out of work and we are to sit back and wonder!?

Obama keeps creating artificial impediments to economic recovery with every move he makes. His intent is to bankrupt this Nation.

[tcrlaf]

I have absolutely NO sympathy for anybody in the UMW who are going to lose thier jobs over this...

THEY WERE TOLD that supporting Obama would be economic suicide, but they voted the way the UMW wanted them to, anyway, and even took Union-paid days off to campaign for Obama.

They DESERVE exactly what’s coming to them, though the rest of us are going to have to suffer for thier naivete...

[IrishCatholic]

Don’t worry, we will put windmills on the tops of those mountains!

Windmills that we will subsidize and won’t work all the time and aren’t efficient, but we can feel comforted by the fact we are paying five or six times the amount we are paying now.

Will the last sane person turn out the lights?

[Don Corleone]

Where is “Sheets” Byrd on this one? Its his state that is in the crosshairs.

[Red6]

Obama is setting the stage for serious energy issues in the future. No offshore drilling. Expanding the protected areas. Going after coal. Not advancing nuclear even though we are a market leader and export the technology over the world (While China buys our Westinghouse reactors we build windmills)........

The answer according to our government appears to be subsidies, tax credits, and billions in a stimulus bill (more subsidies) all geared at advancing “green” energy. But that's not ideology! That's a free market at work people! That's scientific fact too! Like Global Warming, we're beyond questioning this and we need to spend billions of our tax dollars right now to force “green” power. Like the mortgage crisis which was government created, we are now setting the stage for an energy crisis in the future. I'm sure when we have brownouts like in California nationally we'll get some more of those “Congressional hearings.” You know, where politicians that created the mess hold an inquisition and play class warfare games. Like the Community Reinvestment Act and the following enforcement of certain laws in the early 90s that set the stage for our mortgage crisis today, the stupidity of these decisions will be felt in a decade.

Unbelievable.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

THe Democrats got what their voted for - unemployment. Hope they like standing in line like so many other Americans.

“Hope” and “change”. I hope they like the change they’re gonna get. They deserve it.

Time to ditch the unions, the Democrats, and Comrade Obie.

Some people just don’t learn.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

THe Democrats got what their voted for - unemployment. Hope they like standing in line like so many other Americans.

“Hope” and “change”. I hope they like the change they’re gonna get. They deserve it.

Time to ditch the unions, the Democrats, and Comrade Obie.

Some people just don’t learn.

[backhoe]

Remember this?

Coal Industry in Extreme Danger: Obama/Biden Caught on Tape! (PA, OH, WV, VA, KY, MT, WY, TN)

[sergeantdave]

Time for states to declare their sovereignty. And if the ghetto thug doesn’t like it, seize all federal assets in the state and refuse to collect federal taxes.