Posted on 10/24/2020 9:58:25 AM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
SYCAMORE, Pa. — The one thing all the guys know about Sara Vance is she never cries. Which is why her co-workers — all men — dropped their tools when Vance suddenly broke down in a flood of tears after she failed to shovel coal into a conveyor belt. Pregnant with her first child and just weeks before the due date, she was 1,200 feet below the surface of the earth with no easy way out.
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I wish. Unfortunately, like Free Republic, the R part is still full of globalist RINOs.
yes, but they supplied her with booze and cigarettes to compensate-
BRAVO! This is where big government has succeeded in making people think only the government can bring jobs, provide healthcare, etc. It's already socialism at a minimum in America because of these ideas that we have to have government in every aspect of our lives..
With all due respect, the word “pollutant” was only used in your post.
It’s not pollutant, it’s a MANDATORY nutrient to sustain life on earth. CO2 levels are not “correct” at the current 400ppm or at 2,000ppm like during earlier earth epochs. There were DIFFERENT levels of CO2 but no right or wrong levels of CO2.
Yes, but nobody referred to it as a pollutant. That’s a strawman argument to set up “pollutant” when nobody said that word.
The irony for PA is it's not environmentalists or regulators killing coal plants, it's fracking.
[[So where the heck is all this additional manmade CO2 coming from every year? ]]
All this additional CO2? The atmosphere has what? .04% in it? Think about that-
Put 0.04% 100 degree water into a pool of 70 degree water- what happens? Does the water come to a boil and kill; everythign inside the pool? Nope
Or- put a ‘cover’ over the top of a poll of say 100 Degree water in a room that is freezing, a ‘cover’ that covers only 0.04% of the pool- will the heat from the pool be trapped in the water?
Nope- the amount of escaping or rising heat that does get trapped will be so insignificant that it’s not even hardly measurable really or rather not even worth mentioning because it is so minuscule-
sure, there is ‘additional CO2 in our atmosphere- but try to picture a ‘blanket’ of CO2 that only covers 0.04% of the total world’s globe-
There simply is nowhere near enough OCO2 to even mention or worry about- in terms if causing catastrophic climate change- the vast majority of heat rising, escapes- with nothing to impede it- there just aint enough CO2 to have any serious effect in regards to trapping in heat and causing problems
[[As any rational observer would expect, it is China that is responsible for by far the most new output.]]
Doesn’t even reaLLY matter- CO2 is not causing climate change- it can’t be- CO2 rise 100’s of years- 800 or more- AFTER Temperatures rise- proving that CO2 is not driving temperature increases-
[[That’s 8480 of the planet’s increase of 14,403... 58.9%... all from one country. And the US is the problem?!?!]]
No country is ‘the’ problem- there is no problem- there simply isn’t enough CO2 to blanket the globe i n a thick enough blanket to cause catastrophic world wide climate change- Climatechange is happening because of other issues- but man certainly is not the cause
And just for the record- man’s contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere is around 0.00136% of the total atmospheric CO2- man is responsible for approx only 3.4% of the 0.04% total CO2- 0.00136% of the atmosphere is such a small amount, scientists should be ashamed of claiming it is 90+% responsible for climate change
I don’t think anybody could have.
It’s her job and she probably likes her job.
You will notice that the article stated the the tears were TEARS OF FRUSTRATION, not pain or fear.
My Mother worked in the fields operating heavy equipment and doing stoop labor when she was 8 months pregnant with me.
Her only complaint when she told me later in life was that “IT WAS HELL BENDING OVER”, of course that was my MOM and she was one tough little old lady.
Women have been doing this for tens of thousands of years; this “delicate flower” bullshit is only a recent modern concept that real women wont and don’t buy into.
>> from Wall Street to Main Street
Great line.
Coal is dying not because of environmental regulations, but because natural gas is a hell of a a lot cheaper and more efficient for power generation. Pennsylvania is a perfect example of how one commodity (coal) gets displaced by another one (natural gas) that’s extracted in the same place.
Sara Vance is a red-haired tough cookie. Just like my wife. :-)
But it’s hard to bring back coal-mining jobs when nanny-state officials are closing down the companies that buy the coal.
The number one enemy of coal is not the nanny state but the free market. Advances in fracking technology have made natural gas much cheaper than coal. Those jobs aren't ever coming back unless President Trump shuts down the natural gas industry. It is not the job of government to pick winners and losers in the Coal vs. Gas wars any more than it would have been to choose between the buggy whip industry and the auto industry in the 1920's. If government has a role to play at all it is retraining former coal workers to succeed at some other job.
I saw a commercial a this morning with a steel worker blasting Trump for not bringing steel jobs back. Funny thing is he was from Michigan and he said he got laid off this past April. Mmmm...what was going in in April. Probably more likely got shutdown due to Gov. Whitler of Michigan.
Most of their customers started converting to cleaner burning natural gas in response to Obama’s mandate. Truth is that market share is not coming back.
This girl had no husband? What man would let his pregnant wife mine coal?
I don't remember Trump becoming POTUS in 2013...
I hadn't really thought of coal's role in steel production
Too much of anything is a pollutant, for example “noise pollution”
Tampa Electric Big Bend plant was coal powered but now it is natural gas. TECO (Tampa Electric) has a huge solar plant near it...
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