So Rick Perry tried to get government subsidies for coal plants and the government is trying to find ways to slow down companies from upgrading their systems to keep the coal industry going.
Running up the debt instead of accepting the the reality of the world is just stupid. Poor business decisions are abounding with Trump.
CEC Logic.
Subsidies for “Green” energy bad.
Subsidies for Coal good.
And for the record… I support subsidies for Nuclear.
I can see subsidies for something that is going to be the future but coal jobs have been declining since Reagan and technology is making mining less man power intensive.
Until Obama’s coal killing regulations coal jobs and employement had been on a steady increase during this century and the latter portion of the last decade of the the 20th century.
Mechanization had reduced the total labor force back in the seventies and eighties but more mines and production led to increases in production and hiring until again, Obama’s war on coal began.
I’m not sure if, I’m for this subsidy, but there’s national defense reasons to keep a large supply of coal available. You can burn coal in a 55 gallon drum and keep warm.
Dems love debt. It’s not a small subsidy driving them up, or the tax cuts. Dems won’t even admit what’s driving debt.
Coal is being killed by Natural Gas.
It has also enjoyed for many many decades the socialization of the costs of the environmental impact of mining it and burning it.
Once those costs are worked into its use, it isn’t the greatest deal anymore.
Coal is being killed by the reg’s that forced heavy producers to switch from coal. Coal continued to be completely viable and competitive as an energy source until those regs were pushed on the industry and that was Obama’s stated goal from the time he began running for office, to kill the coal industry…
Once again, the environmental impact of using coal was not worked into the cost.
That cost was socialized. It was a hidden subsidy.
Work that cost into the use of coal, then the price ain’t so great anymore.
Horse hockey.
Obama set out to kill the entire industry as he’d promised and he came very near to succeeding.
I am not speaking of what Obama did or didn’t do.
The environmental cost of burning coal was never worked into the price. The price was paid by things like higher health costs, or environmental cleanup.
Shifting those costs to the coal industry and away from the commons makes the most sense.
That is a complete fabrication. There are associated costs for everything that is produced period and from any source generated. They have never been calculated into the cost of goods and services delivered to the consumer.
Maybe they should be as much as possible.
Then the true cost of everything is known up front.
Coal has been a huge source of airborne mercury in the environment.
Where should the cost of that reality be reflected?
In the number of people who haven’t died of starvation, and cold in the 200 years coal was powering their homes, producing their food, providing their homes, jobs, and incomes.
Coal is going to the way if the buggy whip and horse drawn wagon…
Too bad statistics show a decline since Reagan…
And if Conservatives had their way America would still be there.
The more I observe conservatives and their fondness for the good old days it appears they have to be dragged kicking and screaming to future.
And now there are cleaner alternatives.
Shouldn’t we move to the energy sources that diffuse fewer costs into the environment?
“Since Regan”.
Now try looking at the stats for the cited period prior to Obama’s war on coal.
I posted then they have declined try again.
