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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (20283)	6/1/2017 8:00:58 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 357970

>> like optimizing conditions for the moribund coal industry at the expense of the national economy, national standing, and perhaps even the planet, whatcha gonna do... US Coal production dropped by 20% from its all time high under Obama's attempt to kill it. Even at that it was still only 1/4 of China's production and both India and China are still using a lot of coal. So, moribund might be a bit of an exaggeration. Although, Obama made a valiant effort to kill it. Coal is dirty and will eventually die (for other reasons), but it is "suboptimal" to kill the industry and leave large regions unemployed. If you want to talk about suboptimization, leaving workers reliant on government handouts is pretty much one of the worst suboptimizations you can create. Even if you tried. As to the planet, national standing as a chump does nothing for me. I believe in real, substantive metrics and that Paris deal did NOTHING in that realm. I do not oppose trying to make positive progress but the idea that we're going to help matters by giving away our limited economic resources makes no sense, whatsoever. If coal were to stop being used as a fuel tomorrow, it would make no measureable impact on CO2 content. If one believes CO2 is a problem.