SilverSurfer - When do you believe the U.S. economy will improve enough for the nations of the world to facilitate good stewardship programs for our planet?
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“When you try and put coal out of business, you’re not just targeting the economy, you’re targeting consumers. They’re the ones who are left paying the higher energy bills when all the abundant and affordable energy is off-limits thanks to misplaced priorities. It’s essentially an energy tax. The last thing we should be doing in this economy when so many Americans are out of work is make the bare essentials more expensive.”
SilverSurfer, debunking your anti-Obama bullshit would be a full time job. Your Obama 'war on coal' is bullshit.
Who Killed All the Coal Jobs?
By Patrick Reis and Stephanie Stamm November 4, 2013
President Obama is tremendously unpopular in Appalachia, thanks in large part to his administration's treatment of the coal industry. But the industry has long been in decline, and it fared even worse under some of Obama's predecessors.
Coal miners reinforce an air shaft in a Pennsylvania mine in 2001.(Spencer Platt)
Sen. Rand Paul sees a "depression" in Appalachia's coal country, and he says there's one man to blame for it: President Obama.
The Kentucky Republican isn't alone in his fury over Obama's treatment of the coal industry. A bipartisan bloc of elected officials from across the region shares his views, including two influential West Virginia Democrats: Sen. Joe Manchin and Rep. Nick Rahall. The critics argue that by tightening rules on mountaintop-removal coal mining and imposing greenhouse-gas emission limits on coal-fired power plants, Obama and his allies are regulating the industry out of business—and putting legions of coal miners out of work.
The president's regulatory push has left Obama and his party deeply unpopular across the region: Bill Clinton won Kentucky and West Virginia in both of his presidential elections. Obama lost both states, twice, in landslides.
But for all the rage over Obama's environmental agenda, Appalachian mining jobs began disappearing in the region long before he entered the White House—including for reasons that have nothing to do with regulations now coming out of Washington.
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