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‘Not looking good’: Coal workers see future dim amid regulation burden
Fox News ^ | January 16, 2014 | Mike Tobin

Posted on 01/16/2014 8:35:01 PM PST by Olog-hai

Far below the Appalachian Mountains, in a space barely big enough to stand up straight, Bobby Combs works a job his father and his grandfather worked. Coal-mining is the highest-paying job available to him in eastern Kentucky. As he skillfully maneuvers a massive machine and rips into a seam of coal, though, Combs wonders if the family tradition ends with him.

“It’s not looking good,” he says, dirt smudging his face.

Coal has come under the crosshairs of the Obama administration in the push to transition to renewable energy sources. Coal mines are burdened with a never-ending stream of federal regulations.

The owner of the mine where Combs works said the cost of getting coal out of the ground has tripled. For him, that means job insecurity. “It seems like everything on the coal industry is under siege, everything is under attack,” he said. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: necessarilyskyrocket; obama; regulations; waroncoal; watermelons
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To: GizzyGirl

Sadly, I think it’s unrealistic. I got my education on this the other day in my firm’s lunchroom. I heard a couple of secretaries bashing Bush, praising Michelle. Saying how they would vote for Hillary because the economy was great under Bill. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing at the next table. The kicker - one secretary is from Trinidad and the other from Jamaica. Sickening.


21 posted on 01/17/2014 5:46:09 AM PST by jersey117
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To: Joe Boucher
the vast majority of these coal workers vote for and support Manchin

Joe Munchkin is a damn liar, cheater, scammer and all-around no-good rat-bastard SOB, and he fooled a lot of people who should have known better. He ran on a pro-coal platform, famously having sued the EPA, and then shooting a copy of the "Cap and Trade" bill. He ran on a pro-gun platform; the NRA gave him an "A" rating, and endorsed him. Twice. I never trusted the smarmy creep, and I was right. Whatever Governor Manchin may have appeared to be, Senator Manchin has been nothing but Obama's butt-boy and Reid's lickspittle.

22 posted on 01/17/2014 5:48:05 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Olog-hai

How difficult can it be to create cleaner coal burning technology? There is so much of the stuff in so many places that it is a waste not to try to develop ways to use it without choking!


23 posted on 01/17/2014 6:06:21 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: GizzyGirl
But more importantly I feel sorry for the people of the great USA...

Who either voted themselves into the situation, or refused to see the fraud that brought it upon them.

24 posted on 01/17/2014 6:10:13 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

Burning coal is already pretty darn clean; we scrub the sulfur out of the emissions and precipitate the particulates. That’s old news. What’s new is Fedzilla decreeing that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, based on the insane ramblings of Algore and the Earth Worshipers. Since coal is essentially carbon, its primary exhaust gas is carbon dioxide. This we cannot have. Kill the humans in West Virginia, save the polar bears. Or some such drivel.


25 posted on 01/17/2014 6:12:34 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Joe Boucher
Oh, yes:

Conservative, constitutionalist PAT MCGEEHAN for US Senate!

26 posted on 01/17/2014 6:15:00 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Olog-hai

How much money do you suppose the coal unions gave to Obama?

Pray America is Waking


27 posted on 01/17/2014 6:15:40 AM PST by bray (http://www.braylog.com/id47.html)
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To: JimRed

Coal’s not that dirty to begin with.

And their focus is on carbon dioxide, not particulates or certain sulfur compounds (the latter of which makes them similar to volcanoes in that respect, but on a far, far smaller scale).


28 posted on 01/17/2014 7:58:55 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: NorthMountain

you are far too kind towards joe


29 posted on 01/17/2014 7:59:23 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) obammy lied and lied and lied)
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To: kalee

Placemarker


30 posted on 01/17/2014 9:22:33 PM PST by kalee
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