New Romney ad features Obama’s ‘war on coal’

[ScienceRocks]

New Romney ad features Obama’s ‘war on coal’
Human Events ^ | 9/28/2012 12:07 PM | Audrey Hudson

New Romney ad features Obama

Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney has released a new television ad targeting President Barack Obama’s “war on coal” to remind voters in the key swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania the incumbent Democrat is not a fan of the industry.

The ad titled “Bankrupt” said, “President Obama is attacking Mitt Romney because Mitt Romney supports coal miners. In 2008, Barack Obama said building a coal-powered plant will bankrupt you. President Obama wages war on coal while we lose jobs to China. We can’t afford four more years.”

An estimated 2,000 in the coal industry have lost their jobs this year, another 7,000 jobs are expected to be cut if a new rule takes effect regulating stream buffer zones.

The ad recaps comments Obama made in 2008: “If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them…”

Policies issued by the Environmental Protection Agency affecting the coal industry have so annoyed leaders of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) they have so far refused to endorse Obama for a second term.

 

[Lakhota]

Coal is polluting the planet, destroying the landscape and killing people. Also, the increased production of cheap natural gas is causing many to switch - including power plants.

King Coal Has Lost Its Crown To Natural Gas (For Good), Despite Further Price Decline Forecast

 

[Old Rocks]

The new power plants are using natural gas. That is the primary cause of the loss of coal mining jobs. And the damage that the mountain top mining has done environmentaly is criminal.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh3vrD5OCQs&feature=related]Black Waters - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Lakhota]

Just Google images of mountaintop mining. It's disgusting.

 

[Lakhota]

I've always had a soft heart for coal miners. It's dangerous hard work. However, it's time to say goodbye to coal. Romney's 'war on coal' ad will only resonate with those unwilling to see the big picture.

 

[alan1]

A President states that his intent is to bankrupt a specific industry.
Is the industry you work in next?

 

[uscitizen]

I grew up in eastern KY, I saw the stream thru my homeplace run black with strip mine waste, I saw all life in the stream killed, no minnows or crawdads.
It took 30 years to get life back in that stream, and the mountain will never recover.

If you lived next to a strip mine you would be against them too.
You want a landfill behind your house?
An offshore well next to your beach?
A nuculear plant down the street?

 

[Lakhota]

A President states that his intent is to bankrupt a specific industry.
Is the industry you work in next?

Hopefully so, if it's harmful to people and planet.

 

[alan1]

A President states that his intent is to bankrupt a specific industry.
Is the industry you work in next?

Hopefully so, if it's harmful to people and planet.

Electricity is harmful?
What the heck has you on the internet?

 

[uscitizen]

A President states that his intent is to bankrupt a specific industry.
Is the industry you work in next?

Hopefully so, if it's harmful to people and planet.

Electricity is harmful?
What the heck has you on the internet?

Ohh come on you cannot be that dumb.

 

[Mr. H.]

A President states that his intent is to bankrupt a specific industry.
Is the industry you work in next?

Yup.