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Does your username reflect your evident belief that Trump will win reelection with 538 electoral votes?

No.

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Does it take more miners in the US to produce the coal that's left that they are producing?  Possibly, but that would make the coal more expensive and thus less competitive going forward.  Are the industry and government estimates of coal mining employment wrong?  Much more likely. 

How exciting that you bumped this!  Turns out that there were more coal miners even as demand declined as many companies were playing chicken waiting for other producers to "rationalize" production, so the stockpiles of unsold coal kept getting higher until they all went bankrupt at once, which made the decline much more dramatic.  Too bad.

Okay?

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