Wednesday, August 5, 2015

The Death Of US Coal

Some may think this is a good thing:

Alpha Natural Resources, America’s biggest producer of metallurgical coal and the country's second-largest coal producer, filed for bankruptcy protection Monday. The bankruptcy filing cited a multi-year fall in demand for coal -- in particular, metallurgical coal used for steel production -- amid a deepening slump in the global economy.

You can read the rest @
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/05/coal-a05.html

So, what do unemployed coal miners do? Become robot repairmen?

Do you think it fair, or even wise, for a government to destroy an entire industry, no matter what the reason, and then do nothing to help the unemployed?

I don't.

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