Top Trump Economic Adviser: Coal Doesnt Make Sense Anymore
Source: Huffington Post
05/27/2017 01:17 am ET | Updated 0 minutes ago
Somebody should have told the president.
By Mary Papenfuss
Donald Trump spent months promising miners that he’d make the ailing coal mining industry great again, but it seems one of his top economic aides has other ideas.
Gary Cohn, director of the White House National Economic Council, told reporters aboard Air Force One Thursday night that coal “doesn’t make sense anymore,” as he talked up other energy sources.
“Coal doesn’t even make that much sense anymore as a feedstock,” he said, CNN Money reported. Feedstock refers to what’s used to produce energy. Cohn called natural gas a “such a cleaner fuel,” and pointed out that America has become an “abundant producer” of the fossil fuel.
He also praised renewable energy. “If you think about how solar and how much wind power we’ve created in the United States, we can be a manufacturing powerhouse and still be environmentally friendly,” Cohn said.
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