[jetpilot]

Since you only take KY links



http://www.theallianceforappalachia.org/...y-on-coal/



One from WV

http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?fu...ryid=81888

Like I said, I am not against coal, but it does cost taxpayers money. I have friends that are in the coal business, and I know we need coal right now.

Just because government spent more than they took in does not mean they lost money on coal. IT MEANS GOVERNMENT OVERSPENT.
Look at how much money they spent to study coal's impact and to regulate coal. What that really means is government has created another very costly, bloated bureaucracy with way too many bloated salaries, benefits, pensions and other government waste just to regulate the coal industry. Yet another case of government needing to be much smaller.
That study doesn't even bother to put a number on the positive economic impact of the coal industry. By your logic the government lost money on EVERY SINGLE INDUSTRY THERE IS, since governments are now spending trillions more dollars that they collect.