MonkeysUncleByMarriage posted:

Sadly stanky can't understand that the country has moved away from coal and what is left is highly automated thus the jobs trump promised during the campaign for miners won't return regardless of deregulation.  Rationale and logic often evades the right.

Sadly liberals can't comprehend that some conservatives have a memory longer than a liberals addled mind. Ol'bama came into office promising to put coal fired plants out of commission and power companies took him seriously. It's a good thing that fracking technology provides abundant natural gas and one of Ol'bama's crony capitalists just happens to sell combined cycle gas turbine generation equipment or we could be as screwed as Germany on a cold windless winter night.

Obama’s Following Through With Promise to Bankrupt Energy Companies

http://dailysignal.com/2016/04...pt-energy-companies/

How Electricity Became a Luxury Good

Germany's agressive and reckless expansion of wind and solar power has come with a hefty pricetag for consumers, and the costs often fall disproportionately on the poor. Government advisors are calling for a completely new start.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...energy-a-920288.html