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

To: i-node who wrote (20448)	6/3/2017 6:21:26 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358044

Coal is still generating 90 twh and will continue to do so for some time. 90 twh? A dubious proposition at best. I suppose you have some sort of proof as to that assertion. Or are you just making it up? As to China, you do know they have been cancelling planned construction? And that their existing plants are averaging 50% or less of capacity? But, let us turn this around. Let's assume that your statements are, in fact, true. Why is coal production down? It reached a peak in 2009 for the US and 2013 globally, and has been declining every year since. eia.gov eia.gov yearbook.enerdata.net Has there been some boost in coal-fired plant efficiency? You have a bad habit of taking data that is years and sometimes decades out of date and extrapolating it into the future. What you are claiming was true at one time, but is no longer the case. And there is no reason to believe that will change. The coal miner vote is under the impression that Trump can wave a magic wand and bring back the industry of old. He can't. Economics won't let him. So he lied to the miners when he made his promises. I think it is despicable to tell people that he can fix something he cannot. The facts are that Obama didn't kill the coal industry. Economics has. The fact is, even if the economics can be changed, and they can't, it still wouldn't bring those coal mining jobs back. Well, if the industry got massive subsidies and a requirement to dump automation and go back to the old way of doing things, that might do the trick. But it would be cheaper to put them on welfare.