Coal miner confronts Hillary in WV

[DigitalDrifter]

Her statement:

“We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” was taken a bit out of context, but let's be clear, the Dimocrat party wants to completely kill the coal industry, so no matter how much Hillary squirms and tries to and take back these words, in the end we all know that voting for Dimocrats is voting for the death of this industry.


Hillary Clinton Confronted By Coal Miner Over Statement That "We’re Going to Put a Lot of Coal Miners" Out of Business

During a round table in West Virginia, a recently unemployed coal worker confronted Hillary Clinton over her remark at a CNN town hall in March that “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” In response, Clinton admitted her comment was a “misstatement.”

“How you could say you are going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs and then come in here and tell us how you’re going to be our friend?” the man, Bo Copley, asked during the round table Monday.

“I don’t know how to explain it other than what I said was totally out of context for what I meant because I have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time,” the former secretary of state said in reply. “It was a misstatement because what I was saying is the way things are going now, they will continue to lose jobs. It didn’t mean that we were going to do it. What I said is that is going to happen unless we take action to help and prevent it.”

“Now I can’t take it back, and I certainly can’t get people who, for political reasons or personal reasons, very painful reasons, are upset with me,” she continued. “What I want you to know is I’m going to do everything I can to help, no matter what happens politically.”

Fact Check: Hillary Clinton And Coal Jobs

Hillary Clinton, who's campaigning in Appalachia this week, was confronted Monday by an out-of-work coal miner. At a roundtable discussion in West Virginia, Bo Copley asked Clinton, "How you can say you're going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs and then come in here and tell us how you're going to be our friend. Because those people out there don't see you as a friend."

Clinton apologized for her word choice at a CNN Town Hall back in March. She insists she wants to help coal country through a difficult economic transition.

Let's break it down.

THE CLAIM:
Hillary Clinton is going to "put a lot of coal miners out of jobs."

THE QUESTION:
Did Clinton really say that? What gives?

THE SHORT ANSWER:
Clinton did tell a town hall audience in Columbus, Ohio in March that "we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." But that was part of a longer answer about the need to help blue-collar workers adjust. "We're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people," Clinton said. "Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories. Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don't want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on."

THE LONG ANSWER:
A lot of coal miners and coal companies are going out of business. This is partly the result of Obama Administration policies designed to combat climate change, by shifting power-production away from carbon-intensive coal. It's also the result of the fracking boom, which has led to a sharp drop in the price of natural gas. Together, these forces have put coal at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to turning on our lights and powering our factories. A decade and a half ago, more than half the electricity in the U.S. was produced by burning coal. Today that's shrunk to less than a third, and coal continues to lose market share to natural gas and renewable sources of power.

Dozens of U.S. coal companies have filed for bankruptcy protection, including Arch Coal, the parent company of the mine where Bo Copley worked. Although the U.S. Supreme Court has put the Obama Administration's power plant rules on hold temporarily, many utilities continue to shift away from coal for both economic and environmental reasons. Coal mining employment dropped below 75,000 in 2014, with Appalachian mines seeing the steepest declines.

Hillary Clinton suggests those jobs are not coming back. "The way things are going now, we will continue to lose jobs," she said Monday. Rather than reversing Obama's climate agenda, as Republicans have promised to do, Clinton wants to help coal country adapt. The $30 billion plan she released last fall calls for increased job training, small-business development, and infrastructure investment, especially in Appalachia. The plan also seeks to safeguard miners' healthcare and pensions. "I have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time," Clinton said this week.

Fact Check: Hillary Clinton And Coal Jobs

 

[there4eyeM]

The old, limited, destructive energy sources and technologies are only justified if applied to the most rapid transfer possible to alternatives.

 

[gipper]

Notice how the MSM reported this story for a day or two, then it disappeared.

Compare that to what they did when the R governor of Florida was confronted by a radical leftist at a Starbucks some weeks ago.

 

[basquebromance]

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Trump would be smart to really play up the coal issue from now until the November election. Another four years of a Dim in the WH will continue to be very destructive to the industry.

 

[Grandma]

The coal industry is dead.

More dead than the steel mills.

When will the dumb hillbillies figure out that it's over?

 

[Stephanie]

I watched that exchange and that witch LIED right to his face. she did say that. And that is the person that party want's you people to put in as our President. shameful nasty woman

 

[Rexx Taylor]

I watched that exchange and that witch LIED right to his face. she did say that. And that is the person that party want's you people to put in as our President. shameful nasty woman

oh wait, uhm, i mispoke, uh, thats not what i meant. yah, why is it that every time Hillary is caught in a lie, she later has to explain herself,,,like with the Benghazi Videos!

 

[LoneLaugher]

Trump should also play up the demise of the typewriter manufacturing industry. Hillary will have no answer for that!

 

[frigidweirdo]

Her statement:

“We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” was taken a bit out of context, but let's be clear, the Dimocrat party wants to completely kill the coal industry, so no matter how much Hillary squirms and tries to and take back these words, in the end we all know that voting for Dimocrats is voting for the death of this industry.


Hillary Clinton Confronted By Coal Miner Over Statement That "We’re Going to Put a Lot of Coal Miners" Out of Business

During a round table in West Virginia, a recently unemployed coal worker confronted Hillary Clinton over her remark at a CNN town hall in March that “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.” In response, Clinton admitted her comment was a “misstatement.”

“How you could say you are going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs and then come in here and tell us how you’re going to be our friend?” the man, Bo Copley, asked during the round table Monday.

“I don’t know how to explain it other than what I said was totally out of context for what I meant because I have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time,” the former secretary of state said in reply. “It was a misstatement because what I was saying is the way things are going now, they will continue to lose jobs. It didn’t mean that we were going to do it. What I said is that is going to happen unless we take action to help and prevent it.”

“Now I can’t take it back, and I certainly can’t get people who, for political reasons or personal reasons, very painful reasons, are upset with me,” she continued. “What I want you to know is I’m going to do everything I can to help, no matter what happens politically.”

Fact Check: Hillary Clinton And Coal Jobs

Hillary Clinton, who's campaigning in Appalachia this week, was confronted Monday by an out-of-work coal miner. At a roundtable discussion in West Virginia, Bo Copley asked Clinton, "How you can say you're going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs and then come in here and tell us how you're going to be our friend. Because those people out there don't see you as a friend."

Clinton apologized for her word choice at a CNN Town Hall back in March. She insists she wants to help coal country through a difficult economic transition.

Let's break it down.

THE CLAIM:
Hillary Clinton is going to "put a lot of coal miners out of jobs."

THE QUESTION:
Did Clinton really say that? What gives?

THE SHORT ANSWER:
Clinton did tell a town hall audience in Columbus, Ohio in March that "we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." But that was part of a longer answer about the need to help blue-collar workers adjust. "We're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people," Clinton said. "Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories. Now we've got to move away from coal and all the other fossil fuels, but I don't want to move away from the people who did the best they could to produce the energy that we relied on."

THE LONG ANSWER:
A lot of coal miners and coal companies are going out of business. This is partly the result of Obama Administration policies designed to combat climate change, by shifting power-production away from carbon-intensive coal. It's also the result of the fracking boom, which has led to a sharp drop in the price of natural gas. Together, these forces have put coal at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to turning on our lights and powering our factories. A decade and a half ago, more than half the electricity in the U.S. was produced by burning coal. Today that's shrunk to less than a third, and coal continues to lose market share to natural gas and renewable sources of power.

Dozens of U.S. coal companies have filed for bankruptcy protection, including Arch Coal, the parent company of the mine where Bo Copley worked. Although the U.S. Supreme Court has put the Obama Administration's power plant rules on hold temporarily, many utilities continue to shift away from coal for both economic and environmental reasons. Coal mining employment dropped below 75,000 in 2014, with Appalachian mines seeing the steepest declines.

Hillary Clinton suggests those jobs are not coming back. "The way things are going now, we will continue to lose jobs," she said Monday. Rather than reversing Obama's climate agenda, as Republicans have promised to do, Clinton wants to help coal country adapt. The $30 billion plan she released last fall calls for increased job training, small-business development, and infrastructure investment, especially in Appalachia. The plan also seeks to safeguard miners' healthcare and pensions. "I have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time," Clinton said this week.

Fact Check: Hillary Clinton And Coal Jobs

Who'd want to work in a coal mine? Such a rubbish job.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

lets see how Hillary will "Esplain Herself" in the debates when/if Trump asks her and has to explain to the beast that we need coal for electricity/fuel....like the fuel Hillary needs for her private jet.

 

[Timmy]

I watched that exchange and that witch LIED right to his face. she did say that. And that is the person that party want's you people to put in as our President. shameful nasty woman

oh wait, uhm, i mispoke, uh, thats not what i meant. yah, why is it that every time Hillary is caught in a lie, she later has to explain herself,,,like with the Benghazi Videos!

Now you're lying. Even the Republican-led been Ghazi investigation found no wrongdoing.

 

[gipper]

I watched that exchange and that witch LIED right to his face. she did say that. And that is the person that party want's you people to put in as our President. shameful nasty woman

oh wait, uhm, i mispoke, uh, thats not what i meant. yah, why is it that every time Hillary is caught in a lie, she later has to explain herself,,,like with the Benghazi Videos!

Now you're lying. Even the Republican-led been Ghazi investigation found no wrongdoing.

And you think that proves no wrong doing....too funny.

 

[CowboyTed]

Trump would be smart to really play up the coal issue from now until the November election. Another four years of a Dim in the WH will continue to be very destructive to the industry.

Except even Koch's have said Climate change is real... Go on play Coal against the world, easy win...

Problem is the grand coalition has been broken by Trump and you ain't getting those pieces back together...

The biggest uniter in your party is hate of Hillary... Problem is you have no proof...

 

[CowboyTed]

I watched that exchange and that witch LIED right to his face. she did say that. And that is the person that party want's you people to put in as our President. shameful nasty woman

Proof?

 

[CowboyTed]

I watched that exchange and that witch LIED right to his face. she did say that. And that is the person that party want's you people to put in as our President. shameful nasty woman

oh wait, uhm, i mispoke, uh, thats not what i meant. yah, why is it that every time Hillary is caught in a lie, she later has to explain herself,,,like with the Benghazi Videos!

Now you're lying. Even the Republican-led been Ghazi investigation found no wrongdoing.

And you think that proves no wrong doing....too funny.

Proof?

 

[Dragonlady]

I watched that exchange and that witch LIED right to his face. she did say that. And that is the person that party want's you people to put in as our President. shameful nasty woman

The alternative is Donald Trump, a buffoon with no knowledge of the Constitution you claim to hold so dear, a very dodgy business record, no political foreign policy experience, and whose businesses are frequently funded by the Saudi's.

Elect Trump and the USA is officially finished. No one in the rest of the world will take you seriously any more.

 

[Iceweasel]

The coal industry is dead.

More dead than the steel mills.

When will the dumb hillbillies figure out that it's over?

LOL@libs. Dumber than a sack of bricks.

What is U.S. electricity generation by energy source? - FAQ - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
What is U.S. electricity generation by energy source?
In 2015, the United States generated about 4 trillion kilowatthours of electricity.1 About 67% of the electricity generated was from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum).

Major energy sources and percent share of total U.S. electricity generation in 2015:1

• Coal = 33%
• Natural gas = 33%
• Nuclear = 20%
• Hydropower = 6%
• Other renewables = 7%
  • Biomass = 1.6%
  • Geothermal = 0.4%
  • Solar = 0.6%
  • Wind = 4.7%
• Petroleum = 1%
• Other gases = <1%

 

[gipper]

I watched that exchange and that witch LIED right to his face. she did say that. And that is the person that party want's you people to put in as our President. shameful nasty woman

oh wait, uhm, i mispoke, uh, thats not what i meant. yah, why is it that every time Hillary is caught in a lie, she later has to explain herself,,,like with the Benghazi Videos!

Now you're lying. Even the Republican-led been Ghazi investigation found no wrongdoing.

And you think that proves no wrong doing....too funny.

Proof?

Rs are statists just like Ds. They will always protect the State. So, any investigation of any top gov official, is worthless.

 

[Dragonlady]

lets see how Hillary will "Esplain Herself" in the debates when/if Trump asks her and has to explain to the beast that we need coal for electricity/fuel....like the fuel Hillary needs for her private jet.

Coal doesn't fuel jets. Coal is not needed for fuel or electricity. That was generations ago. Coal is the horse and buggy of the fuel/energy debate. It's been replaced with cleaner sources of energy.

Just like buggy makers had to learn to do something else with their lives, so will coal miners. They'll have jobs that won't lead to their premature deaths. Imagine that.