(May 3, 2016 at 1:51 am)AFTT47 Wrote: At West Virginia event.
I'm a Hillary supporter but I think she dropped the ball here. She lied and tried to spin her earlier comment about putting coal companies out of business. She should have stood her ground.
I'm sorry for the people who will lose their jobs because we're moving away from coal but that's the way it is. Coal is killing us and we have to move away from it. This kind of thing has played out countless times over the ages. There's no significant market for carburetors, vinyl records or cassette tapes either. Technologies become obsolete and are replaced. People have to move on. There's no reason to apologize for it. Coal is a particularly nasty technology that has no place at all in the 21st century. Why sugarcoat it?
Coal-burning power plants MUST go away. It sucks for a minority but that's how it has to be. I wish Hillary would stick to her guns and be honest about this. It's not like she's fooling the coal miners anyway. They're not rocket scientists or neurosurgeons but they're not stupid either.
There's over 600 coal plant locations in the US. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Exi...oal_Plants It'll be very dark if they stop operating.
