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Trump Executive Order to Revive Coal Industry
Trump: "Today, we're taking historic action to help American workers, miners, families and consumers. We're ending Joe Biden's war on beautiful, clean coal once and for all.
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No one wants the coal. Even according to the idiots at NewsMax:
Huge Coal Surplus Real Problem for Power Producers www.newsmax.com
#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-04-08 05:54 PM | Reply
Lewzer quotes:
"Why Is @BarackObama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?"
"The country wasn't based on executive orders,"
"Right now, Obama goes around signing executive orders. He can't even get along with the Democrats, and he goes around signing all these executive orders. It's a basic disaster. You can't do it." He's up to 113 so far in 2025.
#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-08 06:08 PM | Reply
That fat ---- is insane.
#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-08 06:31 PM | Reply
"We're bringing back an industry that was abandoned,"
Great news, children who wanted to grow up to be Vacuum Tube Testers and Switchboard Operators!
Now if only I could trade my car for a horse...
#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-08 06:33 PM | Reply
Thermal coal prices have been cratering since last October.
#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-08 06:42 PM | Reply
This money should go to Child Miner Training Programs in KY.
He might even get Mitch back on his Team.
#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-08 06:53 PM | Reply
Make Americans Grovel Again. Barron Trumpf can pick up the first shovel after Moscow Mitch: 1.-------------
#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-08 07:00 PM | Reply
Will Trump also do an EO to revive the whaling industry?
How about buffalo hunting?
#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-09 08:41 AM | Reply
I moved a few years ago from Virginia's Ninth District; plenty of I Heart Coal bumperstickers and such.
US Rep. Morgan Griffith started out merely as a panderer to the local district, but now he's routinely in a voting bloc with MTG, Gohmert, and other morons. Which serves the Ninth well. Plenty of people in southwestern VA, WV, and eastern Kentucky are cracking open their corn liquor early this morning.
Notably, Griffith gained entry to the House by defeating Rick Boucher, a longterm Democratic congressman who served the Ninth well, from coal to gaining money for good libraries and the arts. However (and I was there for this), Boucher once did a healthcare town hall during which he stated when it came to improving healthcare in this country, he'd vote however the hospitals and doctors told him to. Loud booing ensued -- from his own constituents. And he lost.
A publication I worked on long ago had VA-9 as 417th among 435 congressional districts when it came to human development. I'm pretty sure it's moved down since then.
I hope they can eat their coal.
#9 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-04-09 11:00 AM | Reply
Energy extraction is about to see some pretty tough times. If oil keeps dropping, drillers are going to mothball rigs. No sense in drilling if there's no profit in it.
#10 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-04-09 12:05 PM | Reply
We'll be required to wear powdered wigs soon. Unless you fall crosswise on Trump's Color Chart, which would dictate chains as a substitute.
#11 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-09 12:29 PM | Reply
Many power producers no longer want to burn coal, having already converted to natural gas as a fuel source. Lack of demand and dwindling number of miners is killing the coal business, and no number of executive orders will revive. Hell, most 'coal' companies no longer use the word in their names, which should tell all about the future of the business.
Funny how, in Okiehomie, they want more data centers and crypto-mining centers, and want to power all with gas, rather than solar and wind (of which there is a great supply in the Sooner or Later State). When Google's new center in Oklahoma is opened, one can bet their bottom dollar that there will be solar panels on the roof of the building, and Google will have paid for wind turbines to power to place...
#12 | Posted by catdog at 2025-04-09 12:42 PM | Reply
If oil keeps dropping, drillers are going to mothball rigs.
One of the reasons OPEC+ is cranking up production.
Hell, most 'coal' companies no longer use the word in their names
Very true. The prefer "Resources" these days. Coal is a terrible fuel by almost every measure. The only things it has going for it are it's cheap and there's lots of it.
#13 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-09 01:32 PM | Reply
"Coal is a terrible fuel by almost every measure."
But surely not "clean coal".
It is the cleanest coal ever. No one has seen coal so clean. People are saying it's so clean you can take a bath in it!
#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-09 01:37 PM | Reply
I worked in the coal industry for 40+ years. We called our product "Clean Coal".
What "clean" meant was we took the rocks out of it. Same as they do with "Clean Gold", but for some reason they don't bother calling it that.
#15 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-09 01:50 PM | Reply
"We'll be required to wear powdered wigs soon. Unless you fall crosswise on Trump's Color Chart, which would dictate chains as a substitute."
Please provide evidence of your claims. I have yet to see Trump put anyone in chains, much less anyone of color. Please provide real-world evidence and not some rhetorical, highly-contextual partisan hate that only serves to spread more hate.
This is almost word-for-word what my reply was on DR years ago when Obama was being accused of catering just to black people, so you can't claim hypocrisy on my part. I prefer balance and not spreading hate. Looks like you DR lib kids want no balance and for hate to rule this country.
#16 | Posted by humtake at 2025-04-10 12:00 PM | Reply
Coal is struggling due to our abundance of natural gas.
#17 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-10 08:13 PM | Reply
That's a fair point. Much easier to transport among other things. Coal is low density so it's bulky. End user needs to be close to the source.
#18 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-10 08:19 PM | Reply
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