Comments on: The Coal Industry’s Biggest Asshole Admits the Jobs Aren’t Coming Back https://www.bobcesca.com/the-coal-industrys-biggest-asshole-admits-the-jobs-arent-coming-back/ We Cover The World Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 By: ninjaf https://www.bobcesca.com/the-coal-industrys-biggest-asshole-admits-the-jobs-arent-coming-back/#comment-90440 Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:57:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=124882#comment-90440 In reply to Draxiar.

Hopefully, there are other titans of industry there seeking to diversify the town.

]]> By: Draxiar https://www.bobcesca.com/the-coal-industrys-biggest-asshole-admits-the-jobs-arent-coming-back/#comment-90421 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:55:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=124882#comment-90421 I was listening to an interview on NPR that featured the mayor of a Wyoming city that is thriving from coal extraction…for now. While I’m sure she’s a nice person I couldn’t get past the near-sightedness of the inevitable demise of industry. She was talking about still going strong with coal 50 years from now…and gleeful for it (of course). Nevermind the fact that coal is contributing to climate change (which was not mentioned in the interview) and mercury pollution but to think that coal will even be a thing in 50 years is willful ignorance. No one is going to want it…not in the face of clean sustainable energy production the pace of which is fast outrunning coal which has been in decline in recent years. That shining city she was so proud of will be dying within a decade.

]]> By: KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker https://www.bobcesca.com/the-coal-industrys-biggest-asshole-admits-the-jobs-arent-coming-back/#comment-90420 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:47:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=124882#comment-90420 Only the ignorant rubes AKA republican voters believe this 17th century fuel has a future and that there will be employment in it.

]]> By: Aynwrong https://www.bobcesca.com/the-coal-industrys-biggest-asshole-admits-the-jobs-arent-coming-back/#comment-90416 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:02:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=124882#comment-90416 In reply to ninjaf.

That’s one of the reasons why I always shake my head when some conservative jack ass on MSNBC says “It’s not about race!” Were voters from mining communities that they all really thought jobs were coming back just because it came out of Trump’s mouth?

]]> By: Aynwrong https://www.bobcesca.com/the-coal-industrys-biggest-asshole-admits-the-jobs-arent-coming-back/#comment-90417 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:02:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=124882#comment-90417 In reply to Georgie.

Beat me to it.

]]> By: Georgie https://www.bobcesca.com/the-coal-industrys-biggest-asshole-admits-the-jobs-arent-coming-back/#comment-90415 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:50:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=124882#comment-90415 Sheesh, he is an asshole.

]]> By: muselet https://www.bobcesca.com/the-coal-industrys-biggest-asshole-admits-the-jobs-arent-coming-back/#comment-90414 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:45:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=124882#comment-90414 Donald Trump’s election has been a boon to coal, according to Robert Murray, but there won’t be much jobs growth. In other words, the Robert Murrays of the industry will make more money while the workers will get something close to bugger-all.

Hallelujah, we’ve reached the Republican Promised Land!

–alopecia

]]> By: ninjaf https://www.bobcesca.com/the-coal-industrys-biggest-asshole-admits-the-jobs-arent-coming-back/#comment-90413 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:11:00 +0000 https://www.bobcesca.com/?p=124882#comment-90413 Those laid off coal miners who were duped should be in the streets with pitchforks. Even though this information was widely known by everyone with a newspaper subscription, they were still blatantly lied to by their representatives.

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