Obama's War on Coal Country Families

[longknife]

Here's the part of the article that hit me in the gut:


Millions will get laid off—in coal mines, power plants, factories, shops. Entire families and communities will be pounded and impoverished.


Well, he DID promise to do this when he ran for election and re-election. Yet, many of these people still voted for him!


And, of course, there are plenty of those who will attack the source instead of the message @

Trampling on Coal Country families

 

[boedicca]

The poor and desperate are Much Easier To Control...as long as the gubmint has a bunch of militarized police adjuncts.

 

[Mr. H.]

Plenty of Obama Bucks to go around for the newly-unemployed.
Lefties and Enviro-Nazis could give a fuck about "families".
This Socialist Marxist Kenyan must be reigned in.

 

[boedicca]

Oh, just give them Obamaphones and Michelle school lunches...

 

[Moonglow]

Do I need to be darker to get the freebies??

 

[Moonglow]

Do you think the whalers are still bitching about oil production cutting out their revenues?

 

[Mr. H.]

Do you think the whalers are still bitching about oil production cutting out their revenues?

Bart's ass was a more appropriate avatar for you.

 

[Moonglow]

Bart's ass was a more appropriate avatar for you.

Too large of pixel count and I didn't feel like resizing it. Does the Giggiddy gif work for you?

 

[Camp]

The coal industry declared war on America long before anyone ever heard of Obama.

youtube.com/watch?v=p5RcbPZXUZo

youtube.com/watch?v=jKw4CM_aBmc

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Do you think the whalers are still bitching about oil production cutting out their revenues?

Not even remotely the same thing as that was a result of basic supply, demand, and labor. In the case of coal, it is almost entirely due to government interference in the marketplace.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Do you think the whalers are still bitching about oil production cutting out their revenues?

And the makers of buggy whips.

 

[Moonglow]

Not even remotely the same thing as that was a result of basic supply, demand, and labor. In the case of coal, it is almost entirely due to government interference in the marketplace.

Coal is cheaper on the fuel cost side, but capital cost are lower with natural gas..

 

[Old Rocks]

Were the coal industry forced to pay for the environmental damage they do, it would not be a cheap power source. Were they forced to pay for the medical costs of the air pollution and harm to people's health, it would not be a cheap source of power. In fact, when you look at the cost of 'clean coal', solar and wind are a bargain.

 

[Shrimpbox]

http://instituteforenergyresearch.o...quality-and-coal-fired-power-plants-final.pdf

Check out pages 8,9, and 10.

This is such a great article and shows the difference between perception and fact. What is even more pertinent(just like the fate of commercial fishermen) is that the govt demands you spend billions of dollars in upgrades and then after you do they say we are going to shut you down cause we feel like it. The report says our air is cleaner not dirtier even with coal producing fifty per cent of electrical energy.take the subsidies away and factor in for dependability and I bet coal is competitive. And as a believer in consistency explain why coal plants producing mercury must shut down but light bulbs producing the same amount of of mercury are mandated by the govt.

As far as the human cost, Obama has never been concerned about jobs for people but rather whether he can buy their votes by getting them on welfare. Mission accomplished.

 

[bripat9643]

Do you think the whalers are still bitching about oil production cutting out their revenues?

Was destroying the whaling industry official government policy in the 1870s?

It's amazing to me how all you liberal assholes claim to be so concerned about the welfare of the poor and the middle class, but the minute their welfare conflicts with your schemes to save the environment, you don't hesitate to shit on them and then laugh about it.

 

[bripat9643]

Were the coal industry forced to pay for the environmental damage they do, it would not be a cheap power source. Were they forced to pay for the medical costs of the air pollution and harm to people's health, it would not be a cheap source of power. In fact, when you look at the cost of 'clean coal', solar and wind are a bargain.

Can you document any medical costs from coal pollution whatsoever? Can you produce a single diagnoses that says "problem caused by coal pollution?"

So called "clean coal" is a joke. Coal is already clean. CO2 is not pollution.

 

[bripat9643]

Not even remotely the same thing as that was a result of basic supply, demand, and labor. In the case of coal, it is almost entirely due to government interference in the marketplace.

Coal is cheaper on the fuel cost side, but capital cost are lower with natural gas..

You don't save on capital costs by decommission perfectly good coal fired power plants.

 

[bripat9643]

The coal industry declared war on America long before anyone ever heard of Obama.

youtube.com/watch?v=p5RcbPZXUZo

youtube.com/watch?v=jKw4CM_aBmc

Yeah, providing America with cheap, clean, reliable electric power is the way you declare war on it.

 

[william the wie]

Disagree bripat. Fracking coal seams provides even cheaper energy than coal.

 

[HenryBHough]

It's not that Obama hates the miners.

It's more generalized. He simply hates having anyone not entirely dependent on government (read "Democrat Party") handouts.