Appalachia now Trump country

[lostinblue 1,989]

What is your point? Available jobs in a dying industry pay well?

The Kenyan is the only reason it is dying .

West Virginia coal group endorses Trump

The West Virginia Coal Association is putting its weight behind Donald TrumpDonald TrumpUFC women’s champion Miesha Tate: I’m open to TrumpStoddard: Can Trump close the deal with the GOP?Clinton campaign adds Ryan to list of Republicans 'rebuking Trump'MORE for president.

Members of the group, which represents companies in coal mining and related industries, voted Thursday to endorse the presumptive Republican nominee, days before West Virginia’s presidential primary.

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“Trump has said he will reverse the Democratic regulatory assault that has cost the coal industry more than 40 percent of our production and jobs since 2008,” Bill Raney, the group’s president, said in a statement.

“In contrast, Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonOver 2,000 doctors join call for single-payer healthcareStoddard: Can Trump close the deal with the GOP?FBI interviewed Clinton aide Huma Abedin in email probe: reportMORE’s proposals essentially double-down on the job killing Obama policies,” he said. “West Virginia can’t afford that and neither can the nation.”

The coal group said it believes that with Trump in the White House and Republican Bill Cole as West Virginia’s governor, the state will be able to recover from President Obama’s “War on Coal.”

Coal has taken center stage in the run-up to West Virginia’s primary. The state has been hit particularly hard in recent years by the coal industry’s decline, which is due to a combination of factors like competition from natural gas and regulations.

Clinton is actively trying to shake off an anti-coal image, which she earned in part during a March event where she said she would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”

Trump, meanwhile, has pledged that West Virginia’s coal industry would thrive under his presidency, although he has identified few policy changes that would enable that.

“We’re going to get those miners back to work,” he said at a recent event. “The miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, which was so great to me last week, and Ohio and all over, they’re going to start to work again. Believe me. You’re going to be proud again to be miners.”

Trump has pledged to review many of the regulations from Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/278878-west-virginia-coal-group-backs-trump

[Jacque67 7,328]

Ha ha ha.

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

I got done reading one of them there books by that Grisham fellow. Gray Mountain.

Although I felt it leaned a tad to the tree hugger side, still a very interesting read and thought provoking indeed.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

The Kenyan is the only reason it is dying .

***CUT THE NONSENSE OFF HERE***]

I already told you, and it's very easy to get information on, the fact that the coal industry has been declining since Reagan was President.

Coal is dying in China, are they Liberal and beholden to Obama?

Drumpf is not bringing the coal industry back. It's dying a slow, natural death.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Some , would buy a bridge from the Don, as long as he reaffirmed their inner racist and misogynistic selves....ha ha.

[lostinblue 1,989]

I already told you, and it's very easy to get information on, the fact that the coal industry has been declining since Reagan was President.

Coal is dying in China, are they Liberal and beholden to Obama?

Drumpf is not bringing the coal industry back. It's dying a slow, natural death.

The New King Coal: George Soros

I predicted in this column last week that the left wasn’t going to kill off the coal industry so much as it was going to steal it. That prediction is already becoming true courtesy of billionaire George Soros.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Act filings indicate that Soros has purchased an initial 1 million shares of Peabody Energy and 553,200 shares of Arch Coal, the two largest publicly traded U.S. coal companies. As pointed out last week, both companies have been driven perilously close to bankruptcy by the combination of President Obama’s “war on coal” and inexpensive natural gas brought on by the hydrofracturing revolution.

Under the hypothesis that not even socialists would leave trillions of dollars worth of a perfectly safe and clean energy source in the ground for the sake of the imaginary “climate crisis,” I posited that once the existing coal industry ownership was wiped out by President Obama’s regulatory onslaught, a new politically correct ownership would rehabilitate the fuel by contributing to Democrats.

Enter George Soros, a hardball investor and philanthropist to myriad left-wing causes, including the activist and “clean energy” rent-seeking movements that have helped take down the coal industry. In 2009, for example, Soros announced he would spend $1 billion in “clean energy” technology and create a San Francisco-based advocacy organization called the Climate Policy Initiative.

Less than a year ago the Soros’ Climate Policy Initiative issued a major report concluding that the world could save $1.8 trillion over the next two decades by transitioning away from coal. The report referred to coal reserves as “stranded assets” that were losing value as they were no longer needed.

What a difference a few months makes, especially when those months have seen coal company stocks fall to fire sale prices. So far the size of Soros’ coal investment seems so far relatively small (Peabody has 248 million shares of stock outstanding), but the reports available only cover up to the quarter ending on June 30.

It’s possible that Soros is only looking for a “dead cat bounce” from his Peabody and Arch Coal investments, but the companies together have provable coal reserves of about 11 billion tons, worth hundreds of billions of dollars. I doubt the shrewd Soros is looking to make just a few million dollars on these investments.

Soros isn’t the only leftist shark in the water.

There’s billionaire hedge fund operator Tom Steyer who committed to spend $100 million in 2014 to elect anti-coal, climate alarmist-friendly politicians. Though he failed miserably, he has re-upped for the same program in 2016. Yet Steyer’s dirty secret is that, despite his protestations of concern about the climate, he’s made a fortune from coal production in Indonesia over the past 15 years. It’s easy to imagine some Steyer-steered investment vehicle rescuing sinking coal companies under the guise of turning coal into “clean energy” business. Though the current coal industry trial and failed miserably to do re-brand itself as “clean,” with the right politics and the right payoffs, Steyer no doubt could pull off that trick.

Another shrewd investor is Obama supporter Warren Buffet. Despite his long-standing leftist political inclinations, Buffet owns the trains that haul politically incorrect fracked oil and utilities that burn coal. He is famous for his counter-intuitive investing. Billions of tons of coal are becoming available almost for free. Anyone think he hasn’t noticed?

Finally, there are the likes of the left-leaning Goldman Sachs and the rest of the wolves of Wall Street. Goldman, in particular, has a long history of not only financing the coal industry but also of trading coal as a commodity on an international basis. Little known is the fact that while the U.S. coal industry seems to be circling the bowl in the U.S., coal is actually the fastest growing fuel on a global basis. And coal will continue to grow regardless of whatever climate treaty is signed in Paris later this year. Goldman’s favorite green has nothing to do with the environment.

Although Obama’s great coal train robbery will likely be completed in the next couple years or so, none of this should be taken as a recommendation to buy coal stocks. Existing shareholders are likely to be wiped out by bankruptcy or paid off with a pittance. But watching the crime play out will be an unforgettable exercise in the corruption of power and power of corruption.

Steve Milloy

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/17/the-new-king-coal-george-soros/

for the sake of the imaginary “climate crisis,” I posited that once the existing coal industry ownership was wiped out by President Obama’s regulatory onslaught, a new politically correct ownership would rehabilitate the fuel by contributing to Democrats.

Enter George Soros, a hardball investor and philanthropist to myriad left-wing causes, including the activist and “clean energy” rent-seeking movements that have helped take down the coal industry. In 2009, for example, Soros announced he would spend $1 billion in “clean energy” technology and create a San Francisco-based advocacy organization called the Climate Policy Initiative.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Soros owns Trump-lol.

[lostinblue 1,989]

Soros owns Trump-lol.

George Soros donates $8 million to boost Hillary

George Soros in December donated $6 million to the leading super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, marking the return of the billionaire financier as among the biggest givers in all of American politics.

The massive check brings to $8 million the Hungarian-born investor's total 2015 giving to pro-Clinton groups.

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The super PAC that received the $6-million check, Priorities USA Action, raised $25 million in the second half of 2015, according to a report it filed Sunday evening with the Federal Election Commission. The haul brings the PAC’s tally to $41 million for the year, and left it with a strong $36 million in the bank headed into the year.

Other major donors in the second half of the year included Hollywood mogul Haim Saban, who combined with his wife Cheryl Saban to donate $3 million, as well as Herb Sandler and Donald Sussman, who donated $1.5 million each. The union-affiliated super PAC Working for Working Americans also donated $1.5 million.

But the donation from Soros ― who in the first half of the year also donated $1 million to Priorities USA and $1 million to another Clinton-backing super PAC, American Bridge 21^st Century — stands alone, and not just because of the amount.

Soros is seen as a bellwether among rich Democrats. He is one of the few liberals who has shown a willingness to drop eight-figures in an election cycle, having donated more than $20 million in 2004 to groups that tried to oust then-President George W. Bush. After the failure of that effort, Soros dialed back his big-money political spending.

Despite intense courtship in 2012, Soros gave only $1 million to Priorities USA, which at the time was dedicated to supporting President Obama’s reelection. That year he told a close Clinton ally that he regretted supporting Obama over her in the 2008 primaries and praised Clinton for giving him an open door to discuss policy, according to emails released last month by the State Department.

Priorities USA was among the many super PACs assiduously courting him heading into 2016, and his huge check is sure to be interpreted as an encouraging sign headed into an election cycle in which conservative billionaires are expected to donate more than $1 billion to super PACs and other unlimited money groups.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/hillary-clinton-george-soros-218494#ixzz47pPVijoB

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Soros regretted supporting Obama in 2008, Clinton emails showSoros is now considered among Clinton’s most important major donors, having contributed $2 million to the pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Priorities USA and American Bridge 21^st Century in the first half of 2015

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/george-soros-hillary-clinton-emails-barack-obama-217272#ixzz47pQ3pPma

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[Jacque67 7,328]

Completely irrelevant, lib, to my comment regarding Trump.

Soros has "lent" trump yuuuuuuge amounts of money. Very big. Infact too large for some to comprehend.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Try this for siiiiize

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The Kenyan is the only reason it is dying .

West Virginia coal group endorses Trump

The West Virginia Coal Association is putting its weight behind Donald TrumpDonald TrumpUFC women’s champion Miesha Tate: I’m open to TrumpStoddard: Can Trump close the deal with the GOP?Clinton campaign adds Ryan to list of Republicans 'rebuking Trump'MORE for president.

Members of the group, which represents companies in coal mining and related industries, voted Thursday to endorse the presumptive Republican nominee, days before West Virginia’s presidential primary.

ADVERTISEMENT

“Trump has said he will reverse the Democratic regulatory assault that has cost the coal industry more than 40 percent of our production and jobs since 2008,” Bill Raney, the group’s president, said in a statement.

“In contrast, Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonOver 2,000 doctors join call for single-payer healthcareStoddard: Can Trump close the deal with the GOP?FBI interviewed Clinton aide Huma Abedin in email probe: reportMORE’s proposals essentially double-down on the job killing Obama policies,” he said. “West Virginia can’t afford that and neither can the nation.”

The coal group said it believes that with Trump in the White House and Republican Bill Cole as West Virginia’s governor, the state will be able to recover from President Obama’s “War on Coal.”

Coal has taken center stage in the run-up to West Virginia’s primary. The state has been hit particularly hard in recent years by the coal industry’s decline, which is due to a combination of factors like competition from natural gas and regulations.

Clinton is actively trying to shake off an anti-coal image, which she earned in part during a March event where she said she would “put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”

Trump, meanwhile, has pledged that West Virginia’s coal industry would thrive under his presidency, although he has identified few policy changes that would enable that.

“We’re going to get those miners back to work,” he said at a recent event. “The miners in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, which was so great to me last week, and Ohio and all over, they’re going to start to work again. Believe me. You’re going to be proud again to be miners.”

Trump has pledged to review many of the regulations from Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency.

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/278878-west-virginia-coal-group-backs-trump

'fraid not. Natural gas is the reason it's dying.

Ditto China.

HOWEVER coal has a future as a feedstock for syngas, conversion in gas turbine to CO2, with the CO2 converted to methanol - IF this cool new catalyst pans out.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/3993/20140304/new-catalyst-transforms-co2-to-methanol-solution-to-energy-problem.htm

and presto - no CO2 emission + a really cool oxygenated gasoline blending stock which means the carbon gets used (twice)

This gets commercialized and offered as a startup, and I'm going all in. It's that good.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Reality be damned! It's much more fun to blame the Kenyan, Liberals, and the next President of the United States Hilary Clinton for coals 40 year slide.