Democrats are Winning Their War on Coal

[lennypartiv]

Obviously Democrats don't want what's best for Americans.

<< EIA notes that the number of coal plants has continued to decline every year since U.S. coal capacity peaked at just over 317,400 MW in 2011, and the agency does not forecast a reversal. >>

Trump Vowed To Save Coal But U.S.' Largest Mining Basin Remains In Decline

 

[Augustine_]

Democrats do not control time. The death of inferior, obsolete technologies is inevitable.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Democrats do not control time. The death of inferior, obsolete technologies is inevitable.

Coal is neither of those. It’s just been demonized by subversive Marxist Democrats.

 

[Zorro!]

Obviously Democrats don't want what's best for Americans.

<< EIA notes that the number of coal plants has continued to decline every year since U.S. coal capacity peaked at just over 317,400 MW in 2011, and the agency does not forecast a reversal. >>

Trump Vowed To Save Coal But U.S.' Largest Mining Basin Remains In Decline

Coal competes with natural gas.

Trajectory over Obama's second term:

Under Trump - plunge halted and even growing a smidge. Hillary promised to put them out of work. Fake News and the Left gleefully told them "to learn to code".

They'll vote Trump in 2020

 

[lennypartiv]

Coal is neither of those. It’s just been demonized by subversive Marxist Democrats.

Coal miners have helped build America for many generations. And now look how the Democrats treat them. Why are Democrats closing the coal mines?

 

[Zorro!]

Coal is neither of those. It’s just been demonized by subversive Marxist Democrats.

Coal miners have helped build America for many generations. And now look how the Democrats treat them. Why are Democrats closing the coal mines?

Because they are idiots? They are pushing "electrical everything" and a significant amount of Electrical power IS Coal Power. The cleaner sources are Hydro and Nat Gas, but of course Dems don't like that. Nuclear could be better if we used the type that can't melt down, but we went with the type we have now because at the time were in a nuclear arms race and now we continue out of sheer momentum, the Left is no help there. They like wind, as long as it's not in their own neighborhoods, but disposal of commercial windmills beyond their service life is major problem and worn out solar panels are landfill nightmare.

It's hard to know what it will take to break through the delusion Democrats are under and get them back into touch with reality. We may need to build walls around the blue areas and let them learn to work with reality as it is, rather than as they demand it to be.

Not physical walls necessarily, but, cut off their access to other folks money and let them form theories of governance that actually work while the Federal Government ensures that the people they wish to control have full freedom of movement. We should stop bailing out failing states and if they bankrupt, they revert to a Federal Territory until they can form a new functioning government.

This is at the State level, but, take CA, So Cal and the Bay are deep blue, the rest of the State is much more balanced. With Oregon you have the same thing with Portland. IL - separate Chicago and NY, separate out NY City.

Make Them Live Up By Their Own Rules​

 

[candycorn]

There is a coal war?

 

[initforme]

The market controls this decline. The market has created this war

 

[RealDave]

I thought you assfucks were all as about capitalism?

Natural gas is kicking coal's ass.

But hey, if you miss the coal pollution, burn a little in a coal bucket inside your home.

 

[lennypartiv]

There is a coal war?

Have you spent the last 8 years underground somewhere other than a coal mine?

 

[Taz]

Coal is dead, move on.

 

[candycorn]

There is a coal war?

Have you spent the last 8 years underground somewhere other than a coal mine?

the Dems must have y’all seriously outnumbered...you are losing the war on coal, the war on Christmas, the war on religion, the war on free speech...and every other imaginary war you girls are fighting

 

[lennypartiv]

Coal is dead, move on.

Coal still works, China couldn't experience their economic growth without it.

 

[Taz]

Coal is dead, move on.

Coal still works, China couldn't experience their economic growth without it.

So move there if you think they're so great.
But coal is dead here, deal with it.