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To: RetiredNow who wrote (5600)	3/4/2009 5:13:24 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

In every shift, some people lose jobs and others gain. That's the way of a market economy. Sure, but is it good for the government to be the force driving jobs out of existence i/o technologoical change? The best I can say for those in the oil and coal industry is that they should consider diversifying their skills while there is still time. You so blithely dismiss things our economy is based on. I'm not gonna bother checking the numbers but coal powers half of our electricity. Natural gas is another big source. Oil runs our transportation industry. Those are facts. In time it will change but that will take many decades and trillions of dollars of investment. Unless of course we choose the route of de-industrialization, dramatic lowering our standard of living.