No evidence that Trump has revived "beautiful" coal yet

[Demovictory9]

President Trump has yet to save the struggling coal industry, numbers show




https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/04/04/president-trump-has-yet-save-struggling-coal-industry-numbers-show/479587002/

Turning to the miners beside him at the ceremony, Trump repeated a promise that he made often during his campaign for president.

“You’re going back to work,” he said to nods of approval and applause.

But not much has changed for the nation’s ailing coal industry since Trump moved into the White House.

Coal employment and production are up just slightly, coal consumption is down and coal prices have fallen a little below where they were the day that Trump took office.

“I don’t think Trump has had any effect on coal so far,” said Noah Kaufman, a research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

[spanone]

1. or healthcare

[Wellstone ruled]

2. And with more Power Plants

scheduled to be taken off line this year and next. That is one heck of a hit to the Coal industry.

[Botany]

3. The power plants have shifted to or will shift to natural gas because it is:

cheaper

cleaner

and much easier on the equipment.

The utilities have spent billions flipping their plants from coal to natural gas
and they are not going back. Down in their guts almost all people in coal
country know that coal is done but the GOP, their pastors, Fox News, and
radio hate talkers keep telling them that "reality isn't real."

BTW the city where I live, Columbus, OH was at one time the buggy whip
manufacturing center of the world. Not so much anymore.

[dugog55]

4. Clean coal is the problem

Trump engineers are experiencing difficulties building a washing machine large enough to wash coal at a fast enough rate. Once they master that, there will be plenty of "clean" coal to go around. And mining will boom once again. We will then be well on our way back to the 1890's.

[DBoon]

5. Coal is carbon

diamonds are carbon

diamonds are beautiful

Therefore coal is beautiful

For my next syllogism, I will see if you weigh the same as a duck