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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Sep 16, 2020, 12:49 PM Sep 2020

Trump's Promise to Revive Coal Thwarted by Falling Demand, Cheaper Alternatives

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Trump’s Promise to Revive Coal Thwarted by Falling Demand, Cheaper Alternatives

Production is declining at a faster rate than under Obama; still, many in the industry fear things would be even worse under Biden

By Rebecca Elliott and Jonathan Randles / Photographs by Kristian Thacker for The Wall Street Journal
Sept. 16, 2020 11:15 am ET

FAYETTE COUNTY, W.Va.—John Hickman was filling out a coal production report about 2½ miles deep in a mountain when his foreman’s voice came over the intercom.

“Stop mining,” the foreman instructed. “Bring the men out.”

It took nearly two hours for Mr. Hickman, a supervisor, and his workers to reach the mouth of the mine last September. There,...

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Trump's Promise to Revive Coal Thwarted by Falling Demand, Cheaper Alternatives (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 OP
And trump didn't do a damn thing about those that worked formerly in coal mines, other than to ... SWBTATTReg Sep 2020 #1

SWBTATTReg

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1. And trump didn't do a damn thing about those that worked formerly in coal mines, other than to ...
Wed Sep 16, 2020, 12:58 PM
Sep 2020

stroke needless hope in the these people that perhaps there might be a revival of fortunes in the coal world. Unfortunately, coal has passed its heyday, and demand for cleaner energy and other sources of energy has bypassed the coal industry for the most part. Instead of retraining the former miners, the mine owners got tons of stimulus money (none of which I'm sure didn't make it to the miners themselves), which of course I bet none of the mine owners sunk that money back into the mines or gave to the miners.

It's funny, I haven't heard trump utter one damn word about these people, and what I did her recently is a big fat lie, manufacturing in this Country has been revitalized (a statement trump just uttered, a bit fat lie).

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