Trump: "250 years worth of beautiful clean coal. We have ended the war on coal"

[Miles Archer]

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump

America is blessed with extraordinary energy abundance, including more than 250 years worth of beautiful clean coal. We have ended the war on coal, and will continue to work to promote American energy dominance!

3:57 PM - 18 May 2018

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[fierywoman]

1. Ummm...does he live on the same planet as me?

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Clapping for Tinkerbell...

[Turbineguy]

3. Beautiful

acid rain. Beautiful respiratory disease. Beautiful particulates.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Really?

[cynatnite]

5. I thought business were waging the war on coal?

I mean, they've been going green like crazy. Even here in NE TN with all the coal lovers, Eastman Chemical started going green a few years back. They figured out that it saves them a lot more money. Plus they quit polluting the Holston River and the town doesn't smell like rotten eggs anymore. When they made the announcement, a lot of RW pinheads exploded over it.

[Blue_true]

19. Yes, it is all about the Benjamins.

Trump can spin all the fairy tales that he wants, in the end, it all comes down to dollars and cents. By not using coal or fuel oil, companies save big on several key cost categories, transport, storage, maintenance costs, average per month operating time, and effluent and solid waste abatement. For a big operator, the value of those savings can run up to $20-$30 million dollars per month, that is cash that goes directly to the bottom line, sans taxes.

[DFW]

6. Beautiful clean coal

Sort of like a juicy, tasty vegan steak.......

[Blue_true]

20. A rather apt description. nt

[doc03]

7. I live in coal country haven't seen any mass hireing

of coal miners?

[Caliman73]

8. He is either DELUSIONAL or A SHILL or BOTH

There is no such thing as clean coal. It was really stupid of previous administrations to ever buy into the concept of "clean coal". Certainly there are ways to decrease the impact of coal on the environment, but to call coal "clean" in any way, is like saying that Ebola is a benign virus.

Once again, Trump is an idiot.

[Initech]

9. Will he pay for the resulting insurance needed to cure black lung?

[roamer65]

10. Time to buy a larger power pack for solar.

Fuck coal.

[D_Master81]

11. Another tweet for his base

the people that think that coal and oil are the future of American energy. No one is hiring in the col industry. Maybe he doesnt have the regulations that Obama did, but its not changing the industry at all. Its a dying industry.

[Ohiogal]

12. Is he on the same planet as the rest of us?

[OneBro]

13. Ask Trump what coal is.

I don’t think he know.

[kwassa]

14. Beautiful clean coal.

[Stuart G]

15. Very dumb, Trump does not know about 1952 Smog that killed 12,000

It wasn't the fog, it was the coal in the air...that couldn't be moved..and piled up..

If you look at some of this link, you will learn enough to see that Trump is much stupider than you thought


https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16778604/london-great-smog-1952-death-in-the-air-pollution-book-review-john-reginald-Christie

Also, those deaths from that event, eventually brought about clean air laws, and did help that from happening again.. I personally recall that when I grew up, we had to change our coal furnace, to a cleaner burning oil furnace..Now..everyone in Chicago had a couple of years to do this. But everyone had to convert their furnace. Why? I wasn't told about the event in London, but I am sure that is the reason. Chicago was very proud of burning coal, because Illinois was one of the leading producers of "soft coal" in the country. Lots of coal mines. So Illinois stopped producing soft coal over a period of years.

[Renew Deal]

16. Trump lost the war on coal

Mines keep shutting down and coal jobs are being lost.

[smirkymonkey]

17. OMG. He is just too stupid to live.

I can't even believe this shit anymore.

[lame54]

18. Clean Coal? Spoken like a...

Moron on Oxy

[BlueStater]

21. While we're at it, let's stop living in houses.

Let's go back to caves like before.

Fucking insane idiot.