[RunItUpTheGut]

The "war on coal" is started by fracking; even if President Obama was not the President. The level of natural gas that has been found in the last six years makes coal very expensive compared to that. Now don't get me wrong, President Obama has used the EPA to hurt Kentucky, hence why Jack Conway has sued the EPA five or six times. However, we are now the Saudi Arabia on natural gas, which is good and bad.

I don't care what politician it is, it IS politicians who are responsible for this. CSX is one of the best jobs in this part of the state. These liberal idiots who think killing coal wont hurt anyone needs to look no further than this right here.
This is my town. These liberal ass holes in office caused this. No if and or butts about it. They should mind there own damn business and let us do what we want. Then cowards like McConnell and the jack ass Rand Paul act like they give two shits about doing something when I haven't heard another word about it since election day. Do you realize just how many thousands of dollars this will take out of our economy here? Do they realize that there is only one strip mine left in all of Harlan County right now (that I know of). Coal is not the problem. You are correct that its selling cheap, but when it sells cheap we can sale it to the foreigners. There is no reason to stop mining. At full capacity and busier than its ever been, we could mine coal for at least 200 more years in this part of the state. Coal is not dying, they have murdered it.

The end of the mining industry will cripple this ENTIRE state. Not just EKY. A lot of people don't know that WKY and Southern Indiana are heavily reliant on mining as well. This is the start of things to come. Those restaurants those rail workers eat at, the stores they bought there clothes at, the place they bought there gas at just lot that guaranteed income. It no longer exist.

Theres only one solution to this and that is to ignore the hell out of these dumb shit laws and keep doing what we want even if they send the national guard in. Theyd be sad to know a lot of them work for these places as well. Its time to put an end to this nonsense.