Kentucky Coal Museum is going Solar to save money

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If Trump is true to his word, Coal should come roaring back against the odds. Just wait and see.

Why do you want that? Just one of your idiosyncrasies?

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If Trump is true to his word, Coal should come roaring back against the odds. Just wait and see.

Why do you want that? Just one of your idiosyncrasies?

Because it's jobs. Sure, it has declined due to increasing regulations under Obama, but when those are repealed, the jobs will come roaring back.

It's a very small number of jobs that have terrible consequences for the health of the workers and the health of the planet. It would be cheaper to just give coal miners a lifetime pension than to pay their Medicare/Medicaid costs and that doesn't factor in the cost of environmental damages coal does

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I don't believe we can easily transfer 85K workers from Coal to Solar - sure, you can easily find work for the truck drivers, foremen, etc. - but the miners themselves are out of luck.

Give them a pension now. It's so much cheaper than Medicare paying for their black lung and cancers, not to mention paying for the environmental impact of coal.