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2016 Postmortem

lapfog_1

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4. he talks a lot about increasing coal production

Reply to glennward (Original post)

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 05:14 PM

Aug 2016

but it isn't regulations or anti-coal government policies hurting coal... it's abundant natural gas.

Those coal jobs aren't coming back anytime soon no matter what.

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Aren't we already producing more energy than we need to the point that we are exporting? [View all] glennward Aug 2016 OP

Just repeating the old lines. His supporters are so ignorant that they have no idea about this. tonyt53 Aug 2016 #1

Go ahead trump, try and force those companies to The_Casual_Observer Aug 2016 #2

He doesn't realize that oil companies are laying off bc the price of oil is too low. tammywammy Aug 2016 #3

he talks a lot about increasing coal production lapfog_1 Aug 2016 #4

Its not "ours" ... it belongs to the oil companies. JoePhilly Aug 2016 #5

This was also done while we slashed oil imports NewJeffCT Aug 2016 #6