You got the response your post deserved and you are once again making things up because the facts will not support your arguments.
Cutting and pasting an article without comment is not an argument, it is surrender.
Market forces trump politics, and these forces have enormous momentum: Cheap natural gas is likely to remain cheap for the foreseeable future, and fast-rising renewable energy — even without subsidies — will continue to beat coal.
Electric utilities themselves, as Moody’s Investor’s Services recently noted, are realizing that they can profit by building renewable generation and adding that capacity to their rate bases, a strategic move that freezes out coal producers. Moody’s has also published investor guidance showing how the fast-growing American wind industry puts coal-fired “at risk,” and at IEEFA we have found a similar narrative in our research.
I posted facts showing you that coal is dying because of the free market, and Trump is trying to save it because the free market is nothing more than a bumper sticker slogan to him and his supporters.
Hogwash. Those providers had to build new plants to meet the new regulations put in place under the last administration.
Once those plants were built and the supply infrastructure built to supply them they have to go online or face hundreds of billions in losses.
We’ll see. Trump will try to save it, or at least he’ll claim to, but I expect that the free market will kill coal.
You did nothing of the kind. Coal production is up and so are jobs in the coal industry.
There is no free market, the gov’t eliminated it.
Exactly my point! Thank you. Republicans have abandoned their principles for this president.
A short-term reaction to Trump’s disastrous policies. We’re talking about long-term trends here.
This is perhaps the most pathetic argument I’ve seen anyone other than Mobulis try to make in years.
Obama vowed to kill the coal industry before he was even elected and spent 8 years doing everything he could to accomplish it.
History didn’t begin in January of last year.
Yes, I disagreed with Obama’s interference in the coal industry, one of several reasons I didn’t vote for him. Now Trump is doing the same.
Obama killed the free market but somehow it’s Trump’s fault? Hell of a job! Do you twist pretzels for a living?
Your partisan blinders are getting in the way here. I disagree with the policies of BOTH presidents. But Trump is president now, so arguing about Obama seems pointless.
You actually believe this, even though coal mining jobs having been declining for decades.
“The federal government counts four new coal projects on a list of planned power plants nationwide. Three of those face long odds, and none will be able to replace the millions of tons in lost coal demand resulting from recent retirements, even as the Trump administration has vowed to revive the ailing industry.”
We’ve already been over this and you know that in fact coal mining jobs had been on the increase since about 2004 throughout most of the Obama administration until his new regulations finally began taking their toll.
Try posting something that actually doesn’t support what i stated in the post you quoted. It would be less embarrassing for you.
You’re wrong again. Just admit it.
