So, under the rule of President Rafael âTedâ Cruz, everyone gets a national park, everyone gets a gun and everyone gets black lung.
A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
This yearâs âDrill, baby, drillâ is âDig, baby, dig.â
Ah now whoâs giving out the free stuff?
The only way to save coal is to put a 200% tariff on natural gas.
There is no âwar on coalâ you idiot. Because of new technology, coal should be ancient history. The sooner we do away with it the better for everyone.
Heâs going to end the War on Xmas at the same time, by guaranteeing that every child is entitled to get coal in his Xmas stocking, rather than a photovoltaic cell in his âholidayâ stocking.
The only wars Republicans want to end are ones that donât exist. Regulations are a part of it, but capitalism is the main driver. Far fewer workers needed for an amount of coal production than decades ago, and natural gas is now half the cost.
And the wars they want to start are the ones that donât have a hope of producing a good outcome for the U.S.
âCruz drew applause promising to protect gun rights and turn federal lands in the West to the states.â
That alone demonstrates that this asswipe is utterly unqualified to be president. No doubt the bundy clan takes great comfort from such moronic statements from a presidential candidate.
So Teddy Hitler is gonna declare war on natural gas?
Some of the nicest people Iâve ever met are in Wyoming, but I really donât get politics in that state. Luckily itâs too sparsely populated to have much effect.
Curx as usual is all air no knowledge. Any war of coal is in his imagination. Personal background: I live in East TN, coal country in fact and a town by the name of Coalfield is not that far away. When I purchased a section, 60 acres of an old dairy farm, I made sure I owned mineral, air rights as well as the land after all there were lots of mines in the area, coal, silver and gold. The owner of the mineral rights, a coal company, would only sell in 1000 acre plots so I purchased. Except for my 60 acres I offered my neighbors a quit claim of their rights most but not all accepted. The $100,000 I paid has already paid me back over $25,000 in large boulders for landscaping uses. The coal company was very happy to sell those rights as they are shutting facilities down rather than starting up. Even TVA chose to build a new NG power plant than to retrofit a coal plant in the area. TVAâs reasoning was it was faster and cheaper to do so.
Any war on coal is being led by market conditions period.
Except even the coal companies donât want to dig, there is not much market and what there is is shrinking.