Trump Wants to Reverse Coal’s Long Decline. It Won’t be Easy. | Coal has been displaced by cheap and plentiful natural gas and the rapid growth of wind and solar energy

I can't imagine anyone sane wanting this. There are some innovations that I can see people wanting to roll back, but not this one.

Unless you own a coal mine, or are owned by someone who owns a coal mine, this is stupidity from any angle.

Not to worry, he'll just replace those expensive professional miners with free slave labor. Salvadoran gulags can only hold so many, after all.

"You move 16 tons and what do you get?"

Trump: I like it when the peasants get further in debt.

Let’s make Mercury Ingestion Great Again!!!

Modern coal mining is a lean operation, not like the days of Blair Mountain and company towns and "coal country." We're talking about maybe tens of thousands of jobs, not millions, and we're considering fucking over our entire biosphere to get there.

We need to stop natural gas too. All carbon extraction and burning must cease.

Who convinced Trump that coal is worth going back to and what false data/logic did they use?

I didn’t even know coal companies made enough money to lobby, anymore.

Coal is still around? Where?