Trump's push to save coal is failing. Coal demand to plunge to 42-year low

Of course coal is on the decline. As new energy sources become more popular, what the heck do you think is gonna happen? You guys will blame anything you can on Trump.

SAD!

 

What he's being blamed for is promising to do something about it.

 

Is that what Trump means when he said coal is back?

 

Man you guys are getting desperate for anything to complain about. Trump stabilized the coal industry in my area after the free fall from the Obama years.

 

Trump never said that time and mathematics are racist, but somebody did, and it wasn't Hawking.

Oh, coal is back, not black.

 

Mine operators and independent contractors are required to report regular employment information to the Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration, or MSHA. Preliminary figures for 2018 show 80,778 people were employed by mine operators and contractors. That’s a record low, and about a thousand fewer than were employed by coal in the last year of the Obama administration.


Coal is dead in America.

 

Yeah, sing a little less of those working man blues.

 

what was said

“We are back. The coal industry is back.”

Actually, I think he said both.

 

A growing issue is what to do with displaced workers in mining, manufacturing, and basic service industries? Making a 58 year-old coal miner into a software engineer is an unlikely proposition. There are many industries that have been severely disrupted by technology. Those jobs aren't coming back. Many people employed in those segments are unskilled and would need extensive training to fill roles of equal value. In some cases, it may be an impossible task.

Some jobs in mining and manufacturing, for example, have supplied six figure incomes to unskilled workers for decades. Participants in those industries have built their entire lifestyle on those disappearing jobs. I am unaware of much being done to help these folks by either private or public sectors. Jobs for displaced unskilled workers in our 2019 economy are scarce. While they have been woking hard and diligently in coal mines and production/assembly lines, the world snuck past them.

I wish I had answers.

 

Yes coal has been on the decline. Didn't we establish that already? It would be far worse without Trump. I've only been working in the coal industry for over 20 years but what do I know.

 

You should know coal is dead in the US and that Trump lied to you when he said he would bring it back.
You righties. First you say Obama killed fracking, then in the next breath say he killed coal.
Fracking killed coal.

 

That's what folks get when they imagine their president as a man behind a curtain pulling all the strings and magically making the economy better. They'll even go out and vote for a president because the economy happened to be good while they were in the Oval Office, even though they had little to nothing to do with it.

It's like thinking the hostess at a restaurant is the reason your meal was delicious. Well no, she just happened to work there while you got the beautiful meal.