Donald Trump promised to revived the coal industry but instead he has been a nightmare for coworkers. Some big companies are even going bankrupt:
"Perhaps the most persuasive evidence of President’s Trump’s failure to revive the coal industry lies in the number of coal company bankruptcies and mine closings. As of Oct. 30, 2019, 11 companies, including the largest privately held operation, had declared bankruptcy since Trump’s inauguration. And according to the USEIA, more than half of all mines operating in 2008 had closed by the end of 2018. The consumption of renewable sources of energy surpassed coal consumption in 2019 for the first time in over 130 years, according to USEIA."
Coal miners are great people and I feel bad for them because they were conned into voting for Trump with the illusion that he would help them.
We heard a lot about Hillary being potentially really bad for coal workers but Donald Trump has been full of empty promises of greatness and resurgence.
What economic, or government policy did Trump implement, that harmed coal?
Well he must have done something to help coal then right? I mean the industry and jobs in the industry are growing correct?
I'll ask again.
What economic, or government policy did Trump implement, that harmed coal?
Statement:
"Donald Trump promised to revived the coal industry but instead
he has been a nightmare for coal workers."
Provide proof of claim;
What economic, or government policy, did Trump implement, that "has been a nightmare for coal workers"?
If you are not able to do that, then you are by lack of answer, admitting the original statement was a lie.
Trump never had the ability to revive coal. Everyone who worked in coal, should have known this. Each state controls what power plants open to supply power in the state.
As long as idiotic people control state government, and determine what energy source they use to provide power, there is no way to force a revival of the coal industry.
Especially when the real disaster that fell on coal, actually was not entirely due to government regulations. Part of it was, yes.
But the real damage to coal was how the price of natural gas fell.
Which by the way, is yet another reason, stupid people on the left should stop acting like "experts" know anything. Every single expert said that natural gas was going to triple, or double, or increase slowly. Zero of these brilliant 'experts' predicted natural gas prices would fall.
Just like how all the "experts" predicted massive deaths from Swine Flu, Bird Flu, SARS, Mad Cow, and now we have Corona, with millions on millions of deaths, and instead nothing of the sort.
Only in left-wing land, can people be consistently wrong for literally decades, and still be held up as reasons to change the policy of the world.
So back to Coal. Nothing Trump could do for coal. Unless some new method for converting coal to energy is discovered, that is vastly cheaper, it is unlikely that the market will move back to coal.
Or, alternatively, if nuclear and natural gas reverse direction, and become more expensive than coal. But that is not likely given historical trends.