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Study Shows Why Trumps Plan to Bring Back Coal Jobs Wont Work
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BoogieWoogie
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No shit.
Lactose_Intolerant
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No one that supports Trump because of coal is going to care about this study.
DontBeThatGuy
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You don't need all these studies to know that. (and the lemmings won't ever see this)
GameAddict411
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We have known this well before the elections. It's part of the lies that Trump built in his campaign and thankfully it will backfire in his orange turd of a face.
DontBeThatGuy
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Trump voting coal workers:
meh, that's pretty much a front. They're ultimately more interested in racism, xenophobia and sexist bullshit than anything else these days. (and of course guns, god and abortion)
You can potentially kill their healthcare and they'll still give him a pass, as we've already seen.
So, as long he keeps speaking their language....
Demoskinos
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Wag
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Dead and dying. It is on its last legs to be sure. Natural Gas and alternative fuels outsell coal.
Duh. I've said it before and I'll say it again: coals dying because it's a shit energy source. It's a 20th centrury solution to our 21st century energy needs. It's the only resource that the only way to use it involves pulling it out of the Earth one chunk at a time. Even something like uranium can be recycled, and has a host of be midis coal does not have (much higher energy density for another).
Natural gas is the one killing coal, but it would die regardless of whether natural gas existed or not. If it wasn't natural gas now, it'd be renewable energy in 5-10 years. Not because of Democrats pushing renewable energy, but because it's a resource that is going to become cheaper, rather than more expensive. The kindest thing anyone did to coal miners is what people like Hillary and Obama did when they said that coal jobs are not coming back. Some of the worst things said was Trump when he repeatedly lied to coal miners faces and said that coal jobs were going to be back and that he could save the industry, despite all evidence to the contrary. It allowed miners and plant operators to feed on false hope, and pretend their industry wasn't dying a slow and painful death.
Natural gas is the one killing coal, but it would die regardless of whether natural gas existed or not. If it wasn't natural gas now, it'd be renewable energy in 5-10 years. Not because of Democrats pushing renewable energy, but because it's a resource that is going to become cheaper, rather than more expensive. The kindest thing anyone did to coal miners is what people like Hillary and Obama did when they said that coal jobs are not coming back. Some of the worst things said was Trump when he repeatedly lied to coal miners faces and said that coal jobs were going to be back and that he could save the industry, despite all evidence to the contrary. It allowed miners and plant operators to feed on false hope, and pretend their industry wasn't dying a slow and painful death.
yanipheonu
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As someone who lives in WV, the coal industry exists in a corpse that's been decaying for years, and they're too stubborn to let it go.
Also in PA, the fracking/Natural-Gas industry has basically killed it.
KernelPanic
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Trump way as well have run on a platform to bring back Betamax.
Sectorseven
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Even if we stuck with coal, wouldn't automation be inevitable?
whitemex88
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Whoa! This is blowing my mind. I never got this connection and it's one of my favorite episodes.
Wag
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Gai Murakumo
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Did the people who wanted the coal industry to come back really think it was going to happen? Coal has been a dying energy resource for years now, there are much better forms of producing energy now compared to 20-30 years ago. Plus automation would just kill those jobs again anyways.
Watch all these coal fuckers vote for republicans in 2018 and for orange piece of shit again in 2020. They are a lost cause and it angers me to see how Obama tried to make their lives better only for them to demean all he stood for http://www.npr.org/sections/health-...tens-a-health-benefit-popular-in-coal-country.
Just think about it, many of them are probably alive today because of regulations and benefits brought about by democrats. Yet they go out and vote for republicans to end them.
Just think about it, many of them are probably alive today because of regulations and benefits brought about by democrats. Yet they go out and vote for republicans to end them.
This was a waste of effort.
Should have done this with manufacturing, as people are dumb enough to think that can come back. That directly faces the automation issue, and that's overlooked in society.
Coal, however, is having plants close 25 years ahead of schedule because of alternative energies. This is clear and can be absorbed by most sensible people. Most people are not sensible to automation, though...
Manufacturing plants will eventually not close, but be retrofitted. Far different tale than the death of coal.
Should have done this with manufacturing, as people are dumb enough to think that can come back. That directly faces the automation issue, and that's overlooked in society.
Coal, however, is having plants close 25 years ahead of schedule because of alternative energies. This is clear and can be absorbed by most sensible people. Most people are not sensible to automation, though...
Manufacturing plants will eventually not close, but be retrofitted. Far different tale than the death of coal.
God damnit. They're going to keep using this argument for the next 3 years.
The March of Antiintellectuslism continues.
It's been fairly obvious to anyone not willfully ignoring reality that the biggest things putting the squeeze on coal mining in recent years have been flattening global demand and increasingly cheap natural gas.
Coal miners in Appalachia are especially screwed since (a) their jobs are vulnerable to automation and (b) the largest coal-producing region in the US by far is in Wyoming and comprises largely surface mines.
Coal miners in Appalachia are especially screwed since (a) their jobs are vulnerable to automation and (b) the largest coal-producing region in the US by far is in Wyoming and comprises largely surface mines.
This is so accurate that it's disgusting.