[Hoot Gibson]

Now Robert tell them the biggest reasons behind the oil and natural gas boom in 2005 the Republican controlled congress passed a energy bill that was signed into law by a Republican president that exempted the oil and gas companies from the CLEAN WATER ACT and also the Advanced horizontal drilling technology
Made the oil and gas easier to get. And another big reason western coal is a lot cheaper than Appalachian coal

Oh dear!! Could Obama be "the next one"???

Can you say Obamagate???

Western coal has always been cheaper than eastern Kentucky coal and it always will be. It has also always been inferior quality coal compared to eastern Kentucky coal and it will always be inferior. What Obama did was to impede the issuance of mining permits for coal companies operating in the eastern U.S. and fill regulatory agencies such as the EPA and OSM with fellow radical left wing activists.