[Hoot Gibson]

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

Actually, western coal reserves are typically very low in sulfur, so plants burning coal from the Powder River basin do not need expensive scrubbers. Such scrubbers allow power plants to burn cheap, high sulfur coal, such as what is commonly produced from coal mines in western Kentucky and northern West Virginia.

You really do not know much about coal quality in this country, do you?