My stepson is a coal miner who supports a wife with two toddlers and the teen daughter of a crazy aunt.
He does not need to have his cash flow cut off by a socialist rat pack of EcoNazis who would as soon also cut off the free speech of any complainers.

if this nitwit named hillary were to win the presidency the coal mines will not have to fear her firing them. they the coal miners will not have jobs by the time a new president is sworn in because 0 will have already dispatched them.

I bet you are correct.

"ll fossil fuels are negative in impact, market forces could cause a change to a more beneficial process, if allowed and encouraged, not decreed."
How do we get this to happen? If we just used reasonable calculations for the costs of pollution and charged a tax on them, the market would solve the problem.

Instead people circulated petitions at my church a couple years back to stop emission trading because they think the environment is priceless. They say no matter how good the business, no matter if the profits could build windfarms in the Dakotas to replace coal power, they just want the emissions stopped.

Then you have other people who apparently overwhelmed by enormity of the problem, just stick their heads in the sand. They figure these scientists once told us that all human nutrition came from macro-nutrients, and now they tells us about vitamins and minerals. Forget it, they say, let's just pick an answer we wish were true and stick with it.

It seems the same way with gov't borrowing. We just deny the problem and debate "Can we keep funding 20% of our gov't with borrowing indefinitely? Let's be balanced and hear both sides of the controversy." We don't act until it's a mini-crisis.

I wonder if the coal workers union will still support her?

I am sure that they are actively shorting the coal market.

You can bet the Clinton Foundation has no investments in it, for sure...

The fact that both her and the Obamanation implemented (or want to continue) implementing their vision of the world for us, is my objection. All fossil fuels are negative in impact, market forces could cause a change to a more beneficial process, if allowed and encouraged, not decreed. There are technologies that will enable coal to be as clean as most fossil fuels, it is just no new coal plants are being built because of things like this. Natural gas is under as much pressure. It will be crippling when electricity is 5.00 a KWH.

If she had heavily invested in the coal industry, you can bet your bottom dollar she wouldn't be puking such dribble. (Yawn) It's just more Hegelian Dialect BS: antithesis, thesis...synthesis. I'm not buying into it.

I think she's saying the mining won't be viable if people who burn the coal have to pay for the costs of burning it. As clean energy sources replace it, no one will want to go back to extracting and burning coal, even people whose parents were involved in mining.