Candidate Trump's most frequent, and least probable, promise, was the rekindling of the coal industry. President Trump is undermining the miners. Relaxing and removing regulations, jeopardizes their well being, without increasing employment.
Trump's drill baby, drill policy is the baby driver speeding up the inevitable reduction of coal jobs in the United States. The LA Times recently outlined the rise of natural gas at the expense of coal. https://www.pressreader.com/usa/los-angeles-times/20180122/281616715788761 In 2016 natural gas supplanted coal as the primary source of electric power generation. Although coal has other uses, electric generation has 10 times the usage of steel production, the next largest coal dependent industry.
Natural gas is abundant, cheap, and has a smaller carbon footprint than coal. Because of extraction methods, and a still existent climate impact, natural gas is not the friend of environmentalists. But, coal wears the black hat.
Coal mining is a tough, dirty job. The president should not make it worse with dirty lies.
Showing posts with label LA Times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LA Times. Show all posts
Monday, January 22, 2018
Friday, September 30, 2016
Implosion
For 16 months we have all wondered, when will it end? Lies have grown. Trump's pivot to 1950s America, has made racism fashionable again. As he oozes bad taste and inherited wealth, he is a self proclaimed working man's hero.
Today may be the day. Multiple Trump misdeeds are competing for air time. His foundation illegally accepted contributions, because it was not registered in New York. As a corollary it failed to file required annual reports. His starchy pro Cuban embargo stance is fatally softened by his own violations. He illegally financed a trip by consultants to explore the possibility of a Trump Casino in Havana. He may get taken to the cleaners in must win Florida.
His always warm and fuzzy children, are concerned the direction of the campaign may hurt the Trump business that they are poised to inherit. Money is thicker than blood. Don't mess with our billions, Daddy.
For the first time in its history USA Today entered the fray. Without endorsing an alternative, the editorial board concluded that Trump is unacceptable. Never before has a major party candidate failed to garner a single endorsement from a big city paper. Another black mark for Trump.
The LA Times reported, that in sworn testimony, Trump managers and employees declared that Trump wanted to fire overweight female employees, at his golf course club house. They had to hide the heavy set from The Donald. As a corollary, testimony confirms that he used an attractive employee as a prop to impress his male guests.
The LA Times story dovetails nicely with the Alicia Machado story that Trump has triple downed on. His attack on the Clinton's as sleazy, sounds odd, as he tweets about sex tapes in the early morning hours.
Today may be the day. Multiple Trump misdeeds are competing for air time. His foundation illegally accepted contributions, because it was not registered in New York. As a corollary it failed to file required annual reports. His starchy pro Cuban embargo stance is fatally softened by his own violations. He illegally financed a trip by consultants to explore the possibility of a Trump Casino in Havana. He may get taken to the cleaners in must win Florida.
His always warm and fuzzy children, are concerned the direction of the campaign may hurt the Trump business that they are poised to inherit. Money is thicker than blood. Don't mess with our billions, Daddy.
For the first time in its history USA Today entered the fray. Without endorsing an alternative, the editorial board concluded that Trump is unacceptable. Never before has a major party candidate failed to garner a single endorsement from a big city paper. Another black mark for Trump.
The LA Times reported, that in sworn testimony, Trump managers and employees declared that Trump wanted to fire overweight female employees, at his golf course club house. They had to hide the heavy set from The Donald. As a corollary, testimony confirms that he used an attractive employee as a prop to impress his male guests.
The LA Times story dovetails nicely with the Alicia Machado story that Trump has triple downed on. His attack on the Clinton's as sleazy, sounds odd, as he tweets about sex tapes in the early morning hours.
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