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Western coal has always been much cheaper than coal from the Central Appalachian coal field - which is home to the best quality bituminous coal in the world. It is very dishonest to pretend that Obama's war on coal, which was waged by filling federal regulatory agencies with bitter partisan, environmental extremists, had nothing to do with the drastic drop in production over an 8 year period.

Eastern Kentucky's coal mining industry may never recover from the long term damage that Democrats have done. Fortunately for the Democrats, there are not many voters living in the coal producing areas west of the Mississippi.

Private Spellchecker 25 years ago they couldn't give western coal away but slowly the power plants installed scrubbers in there newer power plants so they could burn cheaper western coal while the coal in this part of the country was getting much higher cost to mine and the Coal seams are thinner I will agree Obaama probably speed the decline on coal but the 2 most biggest things eastern coal had going against them is the natural gas boom which by the way helped from the GOP party and cheaper western coal

The only future in coal in this part of the country is met coal which by the way the EPA does not regulate if you work at a place where you mine steam coal it's not good for you and you better mine it cheap

So why keep telling them lies unless you want there vote it's time to retrain the younger miners it will be better for them in the long run especially there health