“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted”
DailyCaller: This Labor Day, America has 83,000 fewer coal jobs and 400 coal mines than it did when Barack Obama was elected in 2008, showing that the president has followed through on his pledge to “bankrupt” the coal industry.
A 2015 study found the coal industry lost 50,000 jobs from 2008 to 2012 during Obama’s first term. During Obama’s second term, the industry employment in coal mining has fallen by another 33,300 jobs, 10,900 of which occurred in the last year alone, according to federal data. Currently, coal mining employs 69,460 Americans, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Much of the blame for the job losses is targeted at federal regulations aimed at preventing global warming, which caused coal power plants to go bankrupt, resulting in a sharp decline in the price of coal.
A blade friom his little pee hole up to his tongue.
Oh how I want that pig to suffer horribly.
And the labor unions will continue to vote Democrat.
I see coal trains going through North Idaho on their way to China. So instead of burning that coal here in plants with fly ash bag houses and sulfur scrubbers, it is used in plants with none of that. But hey, we’re saving the planet!
One day I happened to walk by coal miners picketing their company for lost benefits. I got up the courage to ask them (I was vastly outnumbered) why they would still vote for Obama and the Democrats, who declared coal as an enemy, causing the miners to soon lose their jobs, let alone their benefits. They didn’t believe me, told me I was full of shit, GTFO. Typical Democrat voters – blind to reality.
Good on you Joe. That takes cajones.
F U Unions
Welcome to the party pals. He killed manufacturing a long time ago. Like I say his agenda of redistribution has been changed to global economic misery to the lowest common denominator.
For eight years it’s been a push for Anything to Weaken America!
Cloward-Piven, Saul Alinsky, Dependency, insult our allies, apologize to our enemies and the New Communism of unnecessary, over-reaching, over-bearing, out-of-control, dictatorial “regulation” to cripple manufacturing!
Now that the Coal Industry has been destroyed, all that’s left is for that Sick-Ass Bitch to sell it to China for a buck so that we can buy our own coal at only God knows how much!!
But he’s sure proud of all those burger flipping jobs he has created.
It’s fucking amazing: HE TOLD YOU HE WAS PUTTING YOU OUT OF BUSINESS.
I guess that’s the difference between a conservative and a leftist: when someone tells us they desire to kill us, we beleive them.
Notice the only promises he keeps are the bad ones.
Santa should put a lump of coal in Obuttholes stocking! He has been a very bad boy
I guess we will see coal-power smuggling very soon. Well I guess if we can have Marijuana, then we can have illegal Coal.
I guess the “son of a whore” did accomplish one thing