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Old 06-25-2013, 05:41 PM
 
Location: In your head, rent free
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Why don't you describe what you are referring?

On the general question, feeling pretty good. Weather is nice, life is good.
You're certainly not a coal mining Democrat.
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Old 06-25-2013, 05:42 PM
 
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How are you feeling today?
You post like a junior high school girl.
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Old 06-25-2013, 05:43 PM
 
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Yep, I drove through Charleston, WV in 2010. Anti Obama billboards lined the highway.
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Old 06-25-2013, 05:46 PM
 
Location: Long Island
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I think he is referring to the fact that your electric bill will probably go off the charts because your hero squatting in the White House is getting ready to rule by decree. You know, that thing that dictators do to get their way.
Off the charts? Natural gas is probably destroying the coal industry more than anything else, they won't even have a draft of the new regulations until June 2014

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The administration is not laying out new standards on its own. Instead, it plans
to work with industry, states, labor and other interest groups to develop them.
Obama directed the EPA to come up with a detailed draft proposal by June 2014
and a finalized version one year later.
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Old 06-25-2013, 06:08 PM
 
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Coal miners can find jobs in alternative energy.

Have any of you not heard of mountain-top removal? I'm sure many residents of coal-mining country will be happy not to have to deal with this:



This is a Marsh Fork Elementary School, the Goals Coal Processing Plant and the Edwight surface mine (operated by Independence Coal and Alex Energy), in West Virginia.

More about the residents' objections to the coal mine and processing plant here:
http://auroralights.org/map_project/...hazy&article=3
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Old 06-25-2013, 06:17 PM
 
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I don't know one single coal miner that voted for Obama. They detest the clean energy movement. West Virginians have hated Obama since his first election!
Democrats put the poor, the middle class in the Back of the Bus. Obama's big concern is not jobs but illegal aliens (for democratic votes) and the war on coal. Why not? It's not Obama's job that's going to be lost. It's not Obama's family that might go hungry.

Have fun in 2014 coal state Democrats
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Old 06-25-2013, 06:23 PM
 
Location: 500 miles from home
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Democrats and the EPA put the poor, the middle class in the Back of the Bus. Obama's big concern is not jobs but illegal aliens (for democratic votes) and the war on coal. Why not? It's not Obama's job that's going to be lost. It's not Obama's family that might go hungry.

Have fun in 2014 coal state Democrats
Repeat after me - coal mining Democrats did not vote for Obama.

Got it?

They HATE Obama - probably even more than you do, if that's possible.
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Old 06-25-2013, 06:24 PM
 
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Repeat after me - coal mining Democrats did not vote for Obama.

Got it?

They HATE Obama - probably even more than you do, if that's possible.
No, it's not possible
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Old 06-25-2013, 06:44 PM
 
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Natural gas is saving power plants that would have closed ..and creating jobs. A smart miner would quit whining and retrain.


New Castle power plant switching to natural gas - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Old 06-25-2013, 06:51 PM
 
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I don't know one single coal miner that voted for Obama. They detest the clean energy movement. West Virginians have hated Obama since his first election!
West Virginia voted for Joe Manchin after he did his big advertisement about his Target Shooting - after arriving in Washington, he votes pretty much the party line and is now anti-gun. He does what he is told and now is finding out what it's like to be under the bus. Pennsylvania voted for Obama and for Democrat CongressCritters.

You reap what you sow. A vote for Manchin was a vote for Obama and it happened twice.
So be it. It's not like people didn't know what was going to happen. Obama was up-front about bankrupting the Coal Industry. The side effect of that is going to be sky-rocketing energy costs for the Mid-West and other areas. The poorest citizens will suffer the most.

Sharpen you chainsaws for winter - so far they are not banning fireplace heat.
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