Those states will play a large role in the coming election. It is difficult to imagine anyone attempting to destroy an industry in the US
Looking at the big picture it still comes up CONTROL, all of our businesses industry and most certainly the PEOPLE who made this country the great place it is.
The destruction needs to come to an end, and the sooner the better. Trying to beat down WE the PEOPLE will be as ugly as it can get. The Cause is getting bigger and the current crop of pols are counting on an uprising that will give reason for marshall law. Saddening the possibilities.
Obama will go down in history as the president who killed coal. Making no attempt to hide his disdain for one of America’s most abundant, efficient energy sources, then candidate Barack Obama said that, “if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can — it’s just that it will bankrupt them.”
Making good on that promise, President Obama charged Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Lisa Jackson with the task of regulating America’s coal industry out of existence. The EPA’s strategy is simple: impose punitive, costly regulations on existing coal plants and mandate unattainable emissions standards on future coal power plants.
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Private sector and government employees' UNION bosses started their own pension funds for the members, collected dues from the rank and file, and negotiated for payments by the “employers” into the UNIONS’ pension funds, which they are now able to move to "better investments" (in the Cayman Islands?).
Imagine, 6,000,000 unemployed UNION members, no-longer-useful-idiots, taking over the White House and the Capitol, wanting back jobs that no longer exist: Jobs dependent on coal; jobs that USED TO pay into the Treasury enough tax money to pay 1,300,000 government employees whose 120,000,000,000 dollar pay is now part of the deficit.