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Oh, I see! Yeah, well, I can imagine him creating yet another executive order to “free up” the coal industry from those pesky regulations, but that won’t keep the coal companies from going under anyway.
I suppose they could try a federal level version of the South Dakota ruling that said anyone who didn’t use fossil fuel within the state would be fined (from memory…I could be off on the details), but I think we’ll be well into impeachment or revolution before that happens. Or at least, a girl can dream.
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I was recently in W. Va. coal country and I have to tell that I saw lots of brand new trucks, homes with new roofs, freshly painted store fronts, etc. The bitching and moaning that is coming from coal mining execs and their lobbyists isn’t reflected in their districts as something that desperately needs saving. Sure, it’s a far cry from what it once was and some people need help but…
The world is not as dark as some of these assholes would have you believe.
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Several weeks ago, NPR did a piece on West Virginians’ support for Trump. I recall at least two conversations that went like this:
Correspondent: Why did you support Donald Trump?
WV resident: Because he said he’d bring the mining jobs back.
Correspondent: Do you feel he can achieve this?
WV resident: No, but–
The voting booth is not a fucking wishing well, you selfish, myopic clods.
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It’s always sunny in Kanab
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Where? I drive through WV 7-8 times a year. Names of towns?
I do like power to gas, the already existing natural gas pipeline network is an excellent storage and the efficiency of the worst-case scenario (electricity->gas->electricity) is comparable to coal plants.
It’s not even a theoretical thing, quite a few of them exists on an industrial level in the MW class.
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Are you now or have you ever been in Monongalia County? And did you see the Spirit Otter?
Yeah, there’s some coal in Mon County, but lots of other businesses too, and the overlap from WVU.
When I think of “coal country”. I think of places like Logan, Williamson, Welch, Princeton. You see lots of new trucks and storefronts there, let me know about it.
Just require all roofs and siding on all new buildings to be solar panels That will make quite an impact. For an example of such a building see this: http://drm24.no/component/content/article/10-artikler/1291-solsmaragden-i-drammen-1511911?Itemid=108 .
It’s in Norwegian but Google and Bing do a sort of usable job of translation into English: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdrm24.no%2Fcomponent%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F10-artikler%2F1291-solsmaragden-i-drammen-1511911%3FItemid%3D108&edit-text=&act=url
If that can be done in Norway then in the southern US it should produce a lot of energy.
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