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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(122,185 posts) Tue Apr 8, 2025, 10:13 PM Apr 8

Trump trying to revitalize U.S. coal industry

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Trump trying to revitalize U.S. coal industry (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 8 OP

He's on a fool's errand. I wish him a humiliating disaster. marble falls Apr 8 #1

I have known and met people from coal mining in West VA and many of them or people they know .. Botany Apr 8 #2

I wonder if the man's feet point backwards? LastDemocratInSC Apr 8 #3

Where you gonna burn all that coal? no_hypocrisy Apr 9 #4

marble falls

(64,974 posts)

1. He's on a fool's errand. I wish him a humiliating disaster.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 10:23 PM

Apr 8

Botany

(73,959 posts)

2. I have known and met people from coal mining in West VA and many of them or people they know ..

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 10:34 PM

Apr 8

… had been working on turning coal fired electric power plants to using natural gas because
it is cleaner ( still green house gases ), cheaper, and much easier to use, and you get far less
waste products (ash and other byproducts) then with coal. The utility companies have spent
billions on this conversion over the past 20 + years and they are not going back to coal. End of
story.

Trump knows this too.

Btw Columbus Ohio was @ one time the # 1 buggy whip maker in the world.

LastDemocratInSC

(4,009 posts)

3. I wonder if the man's feet point backwards?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Apr 8, 2025, 11:28 PM

Apr 8

no_hypocrisy

(51,330 posts)

4. Where you gonna burn all that coal?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2025, 06:48 AM

Apr 9

A multitude of factories have been refitted for natural gas. There's nuclear energy for some electrical power grids. There's green energy.

The customer that uses more coal than others (I believe) is China. Oh wait! New 100+% tariffs.

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