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Orange man didn't save the coal companies as he promised, did he?
Nope, and it's not like he really intended to. If this causes Robert Murray to drop his Mar A Lago membership (which I doubt) it might irk Trump a little bit ...
Trump says a lot of things to a lot of different groups of people, he makes a lot of promises. He cares first and foremost about Donald J. Trump himself, and by extension his alter-ego the Trump Organization, then he cares about Ivanka, Vladimir, Donald jr, Barron, Eric and Tiffany but not necessarily in that exact order. Then he cares about himself some more because he can't help it, then Sheldon Adelson, then perhaps 'Melanie' his third wife, then himself again ...
Miners? Hell no, he doesn't care about miners or farmers or industrial workers or groundskeepers or the parking valets or the people who wash his toilets.
Just watch, Trump will be back on the campaign trail again, going to coal country, and, once again, promising to bring coal back and also lying about "how well it is doing under him".
If those coal miners fall for his lies a second time, they deserve to be taken.
Haha, you guys mean to tell me a 17th century technology is dying? Nooooooo
Coal was dying long before Obama ever came on the scene. Don't know why conservatives are naiive enough to think it will ever make a come back. It's a supply and demand thing.
Coal died when natural gas took over as the main source for home heating. Low natural gas prices tanked the coal industry, that happened well before Obama was President.
I cannot think of a single person I know that has touched a price of coal since the 90’s. Most had their furnace changed out for gas in the 90’s.
I live in Florida and you won’t find coal used for anything here, but natural gas and other petroleum products get heavy industry use.
Obama worked extremely hard to destroy the coal industry, and it will take some time to undo the damage he did.
Especiallyt when nobody wants to use coal any more, when NG is cheaper and more efficient. Germany, for instance, just mothballed 84 coal-fired generating stations. Maybe Trump can pick them up when they have a yard sale.
The only country that still primarily uses coal is India, which is too poor to have a mass conversion, but even they are working towards eliminating coal as a major industrial fuel.
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