Attention coal companies

[Jim Oaks]

Since you weren't able to stop the war on coal, you should stop the production of coal. Lay off your miners and let Obama support them, and shut down the power plants. Show Obama how far the country will get with no coal. Especially with no electricity.

 

[PanamaExpat]

I second that. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

 

[adsm08]

No no no, Obama has a wonderful, green plan to replace coal.

Hampsters on little exersice wheels.

But seriously, yes. We need to stop this now by showing him exactly what the consequences are. For that matter, everyone write Senator Casey and remind him how badly he has disgraced his father's name by voting with Obama against coal.

 

[shane96ranger]

Are you telling me the Chinese solar panels and wind mills aren't going to fix everything? Piss.....


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[aspevacek]

I was just in GErmany for 2 weeks visiting my wifes parents. The number of wind mills and solar panels in that country are out of this world. Does it make energy any cheaper, I would say Hell NO. They are in the process of shutting down the Schweinfurt nuclear plant and for each nuclear plant they have shut down in Germnay they have already had about a 35% increase on the consumers electric bill. My father inlaw is already paying about 3 1/2 times for a simular electric bill to amount used 5 years ago.

Fuel costs about $8.00 per gallon currently and based on that people are stuck driveing little cars with power output of a lawn mower as they try to drive further and further on a tank of gas. I had an Opel Zafiria Wagon while I was there that was about the size of my impala and seated 7 people comfortably. The thing had 65 hp and struggeled to get to 80 mph.

This is what COMRAD Obama want's for our country. He can rot in hell as far as I am concerned.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Are you telling me the Chinese solar panels and wind mills aren't going to fix everything? Piss.....

They are still throwing up those windmills. The must have changed where they make the center generator part, they have been going by where I work lately.

18 axles between the trailer and truck.

 

[Mac]

It's started already!
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/09/news/companies/coal-layoffs-obama/
Dave

 

[ZMan]

It's started already!
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/09/news/companies/coal-layoffs-obama/
Dave

Maybe if the guy wouldnt have spent millions on the Romney campaign he would have been able to keep them employed. Did you read the whole article by chance?

 

[shane96ranger]

I am Romney man and a Coal supporter. But that guy is a complete horses ass. He didn't keep the Crandall Canyon mine up to snuff with the standards, and in about 2007 (IIRC) there was a mine collapse that killed 9 coal miners. I didn't read any of that stuff, but it was a huge story here locally. He was fined over a million dollars for neglect of his mine. Really should have been locked up or more severely punished IMO.

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[naford]

What I read last week was that First Energy was laying off or moving 500 employees. The 2 reasons are. First because of the government energy conservation program people are using less electricity. Second they were closing a coal fired plant till next spring also because of energy demand but also because they have a nuke plant in PA. coming back online and also it is more expensive to generate electricity using coal over natural gas.

Read this http://www.politifact.com/ohio/stat...d-brown-says-coal-jobs-and-coal-production-b/

 

[ZMan]

The body shop I work for had a class on efficiency this past Thursday put on by Sherwin Williams, our paint supplier. They brought up some good points relating to the auto industry. Ford would purposely let defective cars make it through the line just so their "2nd line" repair shop would have work, this cost the company millions and millions of dollars over the years, and could have easily been resolved had problems been taken care of when they were spotted on the line. An example of this that they gave was a run in the paint because the robot that painted the cars was out of adjustment, they let HUNDREDS of cars go through with the exact same run. Another example was only putting three lugnuts on cars, so then it would go over so the "2nd line" guys so they could put the other 2 on.

Whats my point? This coal thing just makes me think of that, we have better, more efficient ways of making energy, our resources aren't going to last forever you know. Yet we have to "create jobs" for everyone. I know I know, thats the big problem right now, jobs. Unemployment is up. But you know what? There are jobs out there, I think there's just a lot of people who don't want to work THOSE jobs. Skilled trades is one of those, we have so many kids today going to college studying "business management" and other stupid shit like that, while the world still needs plumbers, electricians, mechanics, collision repair specialists (like me, people will ALWAYS need their car fixed!), etc, etc. Problem is, everyone wants a cushy desk job making $80k a year shuffling papers, thus, we have alot of people either unemployed or underemployed, well you know what? The world needs ditch diggers too!

Sorry for the rant, it may not make sense, but thats just how I see it..everyones just looking to blame someone else.

 

[Psychopete]

there are a lot of people who are just unemployable too, even THOSE jobs couldn't take them

 

[adsm08]

there are a lot of people who are just unemployable

We just got rid of one of those. He would cry and scream about having to do his job, but then he would bawl like a little baby every month about how he didn't get a bonus that month.

 

[mitch4x4]

We are having an issue where I live(NS, Canada) with sky rocketing power rates, yet there is still HUNDREDS of windmills getting built. Now does that make ANY sense?

 

[shane96ranger]

Power prices are out if hand IMO. I do an equal pay plan for both gas and electric. We rarely use the oven in the summer, and I do have central air. My bill for electricity is $110 per month. So I pay $1320 per year for electricity. For gas I pay $31 per month, or $372 per year. I hope this nuclear plant goes in. We need some relief.

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