Six major unions beg the Senate to stop EPA coal regulations

[Wyatt earp]

Know it'll suck for the miner community, their families, and their communities, but the sooner we make coal unprofitable and more trouble than its worth, the better off everyone else will be.

Because….

You have nothing. You can’t simply ‘get rid’ of coal – you need to replace it. As nuclear is not an option and green energy simply cannot do it you essentially have no plan at all. We ban coal and we end up going back to the Stone Age. It is a fucking terrible idea.

Nuclear is off limits. The environmentalists closed that industry down in the Carter administration. It is a good idea, though.

Guess again a new nuke plant is being built in south Carolina
About time

ONE PLANT! Really! I guess nuclear energy is rapidly growing then to replace coal….

Wait.

No, of course not. It IS untouchable because the environmentalists have gone completely nuts. Rather than looking for reasonable and practical solutions, they support nothing but green energies which CANNOT take the place of coal considering they are not consistent forms of energy. They are supplementary. Good to have yes but you can’t build an entire system on them.

Nuclear is the best we have and we should be utilizing it FAR more. Unfortunately, the rules are written by people that don’t bother to understand what they are regulating or what would be the best course of action.

its not one plant think there is two and it's a start idiot to fight back after a 30 year hiatus
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[FJO]

hazlnut expressed his loving and compassionate liberal self, advising coal miners facing the loss of their jobs, thus:

"Too bad.

Learn a new trade.


BTW -- this is very small number of people."

I wonder if he similarly told those who were hoping for unemployment benefit extension:

Too bad.

Get a job.

BTW -- you are a very big number to be supported by taxpayers.

 

[1776]

Look at the scumbag socialist pushing for people and communities to lose everything....

Know it'll suck for the miner community, their families, and their communities, but the sooner we make coal unprofitable and more trouble than its worth, the better off everyone else will be.

 

[The Rabbi]

Know it'll suck for the miner community, their families, and their communities, but the sooner we make coal unprofitable and more trouble than its worth, the better off everyone else will be.

Fuck them, we've got ours. Typical Dem response to anything.

Yeah, screw the unions. They voted for Obama and supported him. Now they get to find out they're expendable to his agenda.

 

[1776]

Liberals in some weird and demented way support people losing their jobs if that means more control by the Feds. They don't care if your utility bills get too much to afford, they believe the Feds will step in and take over those companies like the good ole USSR giving everyone "so-called" freeeeeeeeee utilities.

 

[The Rabbi]

Liberals in some weird and demented way support people losing their jobs if that means more control by the Feds. They don't care if your utility bills get too much to afford, they believe the Feds will step in and take over those companies like the good ole USSR giving everyone "so-called" freeeeeeeeee utilities.

It gives people more time at home with their families.
Yes, they really did say that.

 

[Synthaholic]

You're quite the pathetic fool. Which ones AREN'T?

Major League Baseball Players Association

I tend not to respond to clowns unless they actually say something worth responding to... Which is a rare occasion

Your turn.

 

[FA_Q2]

Know it'll suck for the miner community, their families, and their communities, but the sooner we make coal unprofitable and more trouble than its worth, the better off everyone else will be.

Because….

You have nothing. You can’t simply ‘get rid’ of coal – you need to replace it. As nuclear is not an option and green energy simply cannot do it you essentially have no plan at all. We ban coal and we end up going back to the Stone Age. It is a fucking terrible idea.

Guess again a new nuke plant is being built in south Carolina
About time

ONE PLANT! Really! I guess nuclear energy is rapidly growing then to replace coal….

Wait.

No, of course not. It IS untouchable because the environmentalists have gone completely nuts. Rather than looking for reasonable and practical solutions, they support nothing but green energies which CANNOT take the place of coal considering they are not consistent forms of energy. They are supplementary. Good to have yes but you can’t build an entire system on them.

Nuclear is the best we have and we should be utilizing it FAR more. Unfortunately, the rules are written by people that don’t bother to understand what they are regulating or what would be the best course of action.

its not one plant think there is two and it's a start idiot to fight back after a 30 year hiatus
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No, it’s not a start. I am not even sure if it is keeping up with the ones that have needed to be decommissioned. Is it better than zero? Sure. It certainly does not refute the claim that nuclear is virtually shut out though.

People are not amenable to nuclear plants because of the ignorance about their safety and security as well as ignorance about nuclear waste. The environmentalists have demonized them into near non-existence and I don’t see anything that is working to change that.

Essentially – nuclear is not an option in today’s political atmosphere. As much as I hope that changes, I don’t think it will anytime soon.

 

[FA_Q2]

You're quite the pathetic fool. Which ones AREN'T?

Major League Baseball Players Association

I tend not to respond to clowns unless they actually say something worth responding to... Which is a rare occasion

Your turn.

Oh look. He named on that is not on the list of 4 that are part of this thread. Try again…

 

[Jroc]

There is great concern [among] all the manufacturers that you find in Kentucky who are very electricity dependent,” he explained. “We’re number one in aluminum smelting. We’re number three in automotive part production.”

“A lot of other big companies that use a lot of electricity and those workers are concerned” that the regulations will increase electricity prices in coal country, Bissett said.

Some political observers note that measures of economic pessimism can often reflect more general political attitudes.

If a voter doesn’t like the president and his policies, explained University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, he or she is less likely to see the country moving in a positive direction.

“The job approval number … usually incorporates the public’s view of the economy—whether they are happy or not, optimistic or not,” Sabato said in an email. “My sense is that ‘economic confidence’ measurements are in part a reflection of people’s politics and partisan identity, and their view of President Obama.”

The president was trounced in Kentucky and West Virginia in 2012, and his approval ratings are lower there than in any other state in the country.

But Bissett rejected the partisanship explanation for declining economic confidence in the states.

“I take issue with that,” Bissett said. “Where we’ve lost more than seven thousand direct coal mining jobs … is in our eastern Kentucky coal fields, which is a heavily Democratic area,” he noted.

“I assure you, Democrats and Republicans, the vast majority of Kentuckians, are worried about this issue,” he said.

Both parties used Gallup’s numbers to blame the other for misguided economic priorities.

“Voters in these states are tired of the lack of results, the broken promises, tired of the lies about Obamacare, the economic situation, and job creation,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Brad Dayspring in a statement.

Justin Barasky, a spokesman for Democrats’ Senate counterpart, blamed economic woes in the states on Republicans’ “wildly unpopular agenda of Washington special interests and the Tea Party.”

Both Republicans and Democrats in the two states have tried to bill themselves as pro-coal. But while the GOP needs only to stress its traditional pro-energy stance, Democrats in both states have been forced to distance themselves from the president and his EPA.

Grimes has accused McConnell of being ineffective in combatting EPA regulations.

McConnell recently unveiled legislation to block EPA regulations that would limit carbon emissions from power plants, citing Free Beacon reporting on behind-the-scenes collaboration between the agency and some of the nation’s most radical anti-coal groups.

“The real tragedy here is that those claiming to be fighting for the poor are not only making things worse in places like Eastern Kentucky, they’re deliberately ignoring the voices of those who live outside their comfortable Beltway cocoon,” McConnell said in an emailed statement.

Grimes, Bissett said, “has had positive statements about coal, but she needs to make the case how she would do a better job as a leader, which is hard to understand when she takes money and counsel from [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid

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Coal Country Voters Express Economic Pessimism | Washington Free Beacon

 

[Synthaholic]

You're quite the pathetic fool. Which ones AREN'T?

Major League Baseball Players Association

I tend not to respond to clowns unless they actually say something worth responding to... Which is a rare occasion

Your turn.

Oh look. He named on that is not on the list of 4 that are part of this thread. Try again…

I answered his question, which was "what unions aren't Democrats".

 

[LeftofLeft]

You're quite the pathetic fool. Which ones AREN'T?

Major League Baseball Players Association

I tend not to respond to clowns unless they actually say something worth responding to... Which is a rare occasion

Your turn.

You are certain the MLBPA is not Democrat? Even if it is not, you simply identified an exception or far end of the skew on a distribution curve. If you named 10 unions that were not Democrat, they would not add up to a drop in the bucket that is the amass of Unions sheepishly voting Democrat.