Straw man much chump? Your stupid post has NOTHING to do with the article I posted. Nothing. Did your limited attention span prevent you from figuring that out? Actually, you are not too good at this, you should go back to pimping your sisters. Thommy W says you are much better at hooking up the ner' do well like him with the best whores. Stick with that and stay away from your stupid post. LOL

Apparently, you cannot read English. According to the article, we certainly can reverse "what is coming". Read and weep you dumb hick and whine about yet another part of our economy that you democrats were unable to kill off. I know you hate our country so you will find something else to attack and destroy.

Wow, you hateful lefties that hate America, and think the EPA should be running the United States day to day are not going to like this: Coal is making a comeback! Will the U.S. coal industry ever be what it once was? Probably not, but what is happening is a far cry from the community organizer's attempts to kill it off and what the fat lady would have done had she been elected.

Over the last few months, many of you lefties have actually posted "Coal Is Dead". Once again you demonstrate you have no idea what you are talking about. You rarely do.

So all you lefties that hate America, read and weep. For the patriotic others that believe America SHOULD be great again, then rejoice and know that in spite of the MSM and the hate filled left, we are winning!

From the Wall Street Journal.

Coal Makes a Comeback
Trump’s policies and exports to Europe are helping the industry.

By The Editorial Board
Aug. 16, 2017 7:27 p.m. ET

Not long ago liberals hailed the demise of coal as inevitable while the Obama Administration strangled the industry with regulation. But don’t look now, Tom Steyer, because coal is showing signs of a revival and breathing economic life into West Virginia and other coal states.

Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy proclaimed in 2015 that coal “is no longer marketable.” She planned to be the lead undertaker. The Obama Administration worked tirelessly to fulfill her mission and may have succeeded had Hillary Clinton become President. “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of work,” the 2016 Democratic nominee famously promised.

Yet the Trump Presidency seems to have lifted animal spirits and coal. Weekly coal production has increased by 14.5% nationwide over last year with even bigger bumps in West Virginia (19%), Pennsylvania (19.7%) and Wyoming (19.8%). Exports were up 58% during the first quarter from last year. Apparently coal can be marketable if regulators let it be.

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The Obama Administration first targeted coal consumption with rules on mercury emissions and ash disposal that would have made it next to impossible to build a new coal-burning power plant. Then came the 2015 Clean Power Plan that would have forced the existing fleet of coal plants into early retirement.

Finally, the Obama anti-coal warriors sought to shut down coal’s export potential. Thick-seamed coal on federal land in the Powder River Basin overlying Wyoming and Montana is relatively clean-burning and inexpensive to mine. The Obama Interior Department suspended new coal leases on federal land last winter and then reassessed royalty payments—thereby reducing investment and profitability. In December came the coup de grâce: Interior’s stream rule usurping state authority over permitting.

President Trump has called a cease fire to his predecessor’s “war on coal.” In February he signed a resolution repealing the stream rule under the Congressional Review Act. The Supreme Court stayed the Clean Power Plan in February 2016, and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is dismantling the power rule as well as the ash and mercury rules. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has re-opened leases and rescinded the royalty revaluation.

Meanwhile, coal is becoming more competitive as a fuel source relative to natural gas, whose price has risen 63% since March 2016 amid an expanding market. The Energy Information Administration says the U.S. will be a net exporter of natural gas this year.

Growing pipeline networks have boosted gas exports to Mexico and are providing new domestic outlets for gas trapped in the Marcellus and Utica Shales. Pipeline export capacity to Mexico is expected to nearly double by 2019. Several interstate pipelines are under review to deliver gas to the Midwest, eastern Canada and Gulf Coast for export. Liquefied natural gas exports have increased six-fold in the last year, and five new terminal projects are expected to be completed within three years. While coal and natural gas compete as electric power fuels, they can both prosper if energy markets expand.

This is all horrifying to the climate-change lobby, but they might note that U.S. coal exports are rising to countries that claim climate-change virtue. Exports to France increased 214% during the first quarter of this year amid a nuclear power plant outage. Other European countries like Germany and the U.K. are utilizing U.S. coal to stabilize unreliable renewable sources and make up for electric capacity lost from the shutdown of nuclear plants. First-quarter coal exports were up 94% to Germany and 282% to the U.K. Et tu, Angela Merkel ?

Coking coal used to make steel is also currently a hot commodity, and its price can soar whenever a storm hits Australia and shuts down mines as one did this spring. Metallurgical exports to China rose 357% during the first quarter. As much as Mr. Trump denounces China’s overproduction of steel, U.S. coal miners are benefitting.

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The bigger story is that there’s still demand for U.S. coal if regulators allow energy markets to work. The Energy Information Administration in June projected that U.S. coal power generation will increase by 13% by 2025 “as the existing fleet of coal-fired generators can be more fully utilized and fewer coal-fired generators are retired.” With the Obama Clean Power Plan, the EIA had forecast a 2% to 16% decline.

Coal production will likely never return to its heyday of decades ago. Recent bankruptcies that have made coal companies leaner and more competitive also mean that fewer workers are needed to produce the same output. But even the current modest rebound is helping coal states.

During the first quarter, West Virginia (3%) ranked second in the nation in GDP growth after Texas (3.9%), according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. New Mexico, another heavy mining state, came in third (2.8%). Mining resurgences began in West Virginia, Kentucky and New Mexico last summer after the Clean Power Plan was stayed. After plummeting last year, Wyoming and Montana’s mining industries grew during the first quarter.

Two or three quarters of economic data don’t make a long-term trend, but all of this is still good news for coal states that have experienced two years of little or negative growth and years of political assault.

Appeared in the August 17, 2017, print edition.

"Hyperbolic"? That is a pretty big word for YOU. Who told you to write that? Where did you steal that line? If you think he is hyperbolic, then you know nothing about Ben Stein. You could not even carry his brief case clown. Did your stupid post prevent a black kid from being murdered in Chicago last night? Did it?
Whoever you take your words from for your next post, at least give them the respect of spelling the words correctly. You cannot even tell lies without screwing up, can you?

So genius, why don't you answer some of the questions? When those statues were vandalized and toppled did that save a life in Chicago? Did that buy a kid below the poverty line his lunch? After the Memorial came down, was everyone every where safer? Tell us about that you mindless blob.

Just the point imbecile. Which, of course, you are way too stupid to understand. No surprise there.

Typical lefty hater, you cannot take facts. Prove there is one lie in my post crap for brains, prove it. You are not a man, you are a mindless dwarf.

Prove it green and then go screw yourself.

YOU ARE ALSO A COWARD GREEN. I have no one blocked so anyone can respond to me, even a goofball like you. But you are a coward you block people that disagree with you. You do not even make a good fairy green. LOL

It has been pretty amusing as well as disappointing and a bit scary to watch you lefties crap in your pants the last three days over the Trump impeachable offense of the week. Most but not quite all have been backing up your uninformed opinions and statements with lie after lie or just total complete ignorance. You all think you are experts on the history of this country 150-200 years ago when you really know nothing and from that nothing to attempt to revise history to fit your slanderous and un-American agenda.
What happened in Charlottesville, VA on Saturday is NOT Donald Trump's fault. To say it is his fault is silly. You may say you do not like the way he responded to the incident in Virginia but you would hate what he says no matter what he says. Mr. Trump could have made the heavens open up and have the racists punished then and there but you would have found fault with that. Why? Because you are so full of hate for one man, that you hate him and the people that support much more than you love this country. If you say you don't you are only lying to yourself. You call Trump a racist and a neo-Nazi. Based on what? Really, based on what? Provide proof. You can't.

Again, you might not like the way President Trump responded. You state he did not condemn the racist and the Nazis but he did-twice. For some reason, you choose to continually lie about that. But that is not what you should be worried about. What you should be worried about is the lawlessness and lack of law enforcement on Saturday in Charlottesville, VA on Saturday. What happened on Saturday should scare you to death, that is if you are not so full of hate and smart enough to understand what happened. This is factually what happened on Saturday: A group of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other racists with a repugnant un-American agenda secured a permit to have a protest march and state their case however repugnant and offensive their beliefs are. By everyone's account, they were marching and protesting peacefully. Then, a leftist group, that DID NOT have a permit to march and demonstrate attacked the racist group with baseball bats, tear gas, and spray cans of fire. The substantial police presence that was there stepped back, withdrew and allowed it to happen. Completely lawless. If you are intellectually honest, no matter how much you disagree with what the racist group stands for, and most all of us do disagree, the group legally protesting was wronged and lawlessness prevailed. Again, if you are intellectually honest and many of you are not, you are ignorant, hateful and petty. But if you are honest this should scare you to death. Mobs pulling down and burning statues outside of legal process should scare you to death. THIS IS EXACTLY what happened in Nazi Germany, Mao's China and Stalin's Russia. And then........they came for the people. Where does it stop? What is enough? When will there be enough? We fought a war supposedly over just slavery and over 600,000 Americans died and it seems that was not enough. What is enough? Where does it stop? As a result of those statues being lawlessly pulled down and destroyed yesterday and today in Durham and Baltimore what was accomplished? What good was gained? Did it stop another black on black murder in Chicago? Were there fewer rapes in Baltimore last night? Did we wake up today to suddenly find that Detroit had been rebuilt and is all pristine and new and prosperous? Did fewer black kids go to bed last night hungry and unafraid? Did the black graduation rate from inter city schools suddenly jump 10 percentage points and will every year after this one? Is that it? Is everything now settled? Are race relations in this country now as good as their they are going to get because of the lawlessness and now everyone is going to get along forever? Did the left accomplish everything they want by setting up that situation in Charlottesville, VA? Is that now enough? Are we now at the place and everyone has had enough that going forward it will now be okay for one group to be offended as long as another one is not? Is that the result? Is that what you want? What do we do next, dig up the Confederate dead? Does that finally solve it? Answer those questions, and others, honestly.

If you are under the illusion of this working, of tearing down statues solving all the problems. If you think that is it and now you have your way, then I hate to tell you the trouble that is coming has not even yet begun. And that......should scare you to death.

The below short article was written and released by Ben Stein earlier today. Mr. Stein, is a lawyer, a constitutional lawyer, a northerner and a Jew. Mr. Stein is not a big fan of Mr. Trump. If you are open minded enough and not so full of hate then read his very brief but very well thought out take on what happened Saturday, what happened 150 years ago and his view of President Trump's response.




Ben Stein's Diary

By Ben Stein

August 16, 2017, 12:30 pm

Good for him for taking the hard way out and defending the Constitution.

Now for a few words about the Confederate statues contretemps in various states.

1. I wonder how many of the counter-protesters at the Charlottesville event even had any idea who Robert E. Lee was. He was a major hero of the Mexican-American War. He fought for the Confederacy against the Union, but at the time he did it, it was not illegal. Slavery was — while 100 percent evil — completely protected by law as of 1861. When Lee went to work to defend his native Virginia, he was not violating any law.

In fact, at no time did the Supreme Court rule that secession was unconstitutional. To the contrary, when the Supreme Court moved towards declaring secession lawful, President Lincoln, in violation of every lawful principle, threatened to have Roger Taney, the Chief Justice, arrested and jailed. He had already used federal troops to arrest much of the Maryland state legislature to keep Maryland from seceding. Again, this was an unequivocal violation of the Constitution. And when a court ordered the legislators released under habeas corpus, Lincoln simply ignored the order.

When the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered at Appomattox Court House in the spring of 1865, some officers of Lee’s Army suggested an ongoing guerrilla campaign against the Union. Lee absolutely vetoed the idea, saying that enough blood had been shed and that it was time to bind up the wounds of war.



I wonder how many of the counter-protesters who threw containers of urine and bottles and sticks at the protesters who actually had a license to demonstrate knew anything about Lee the peacemaker or about Lincoln, the lawbreaker. I wonder how many Americans of any age know that the immense majority of Southerners owned no slaves and that they laid down their lives to protect not slavery, but an invasion by Northerners who by the laws of the day simply had no clear legal right to be in North Carolina or Virginia at arms.

2. I watched with astonishment the demolition of the statue of a Confederate soldier in Durham. No police at hand at all to stop the destruction of public property. No vote by any government body to remove the statue. Just a mob of “students” and a complete absence of police or law enforcement at all. This was mob rule. Pure, simple, and terrifying.

Why even bother to have police at all if this is the way the law is protected?

3. I see that, as of late Tuesday night, the media is going berserk with rage about President Trump saying there were lawbreakers on both sides in C-Ville. But clearly, Mr. Trump was right. The pro-statue people were strange looking, but they had a permit and they had the First Amendment. The ones who attacked them with clubs were the instigators.

Yes, of course, I hate anyone who even hints at sympathy for the Nazis. The monstrous evil of those demons is unmatched. But they have the right to speak when not inciting violence and when not committing violence. Otherwise, the Constitution is trash.

For Trump to point out that while the KKK and the Nazis are nauseating, they have free speech rights, is not only correct but actually brave of him. To take on the MSM and say the Constitution is above the networks and the major newspapers makes him a hero. The same day that this story appeared, I got a USPS letter saying — in a childish type written note on a torn sheet of lined paper, “Ben Stein–Economist, Lawyer, Actor, Commentator–Most of all F–king Jew.” I’d rather get those every hour of every day than lose one iota of the First Amendment. I appreciate that Trump, who is tortured every day by a hate-filled free press, still defends free speech. His endurance is exemplary.

As Mr. Trump said, the day in C-Ville was agonizing. But for those who stood up for free speech, it was a glorious day.

For the apparent murderer by car, it will be judgment day.

More to come, but for now, good for Donald Trump for taking the hard way out, and, I suspect, the far harder and more courageous way into a new media civil war. The Constitution or the MSM. Which side are you on, brother? Which side are you on?

Trump IS NOT the one doing the nuclear posturing you depraved stupid fool. What about that don't you get dumb ass?

Time to unwatch nikky nak. Have fun loser.

It seems you have lost it nikky nak. That the best you can do bank clerk?

He absolutely did not. You are an ignorant fool. He was the laughing stock in the rest of the world.

You must really hate this country, moron.

Confirmed: you are an imbecile. You are so full of shit your eyes must be brown. Most eloquent president we ever had? LOL That tree ape could not even speak in complete sentences without a teleprompter.