[Hoot Gibson]

Thank you so much for all the profound insight regarding MY source. If SourceWatch is a hotbed of liberal propaganda the point still remains. There were 174 thousand coal mining jobs existing as of November 26th of last year. So what’s your argument now, there are LESS coal mining jobs a year later? :biglmao:

My original intent in citing SourceWatch was to demonstrate the fact that coal jobs are not limited to the guys who ride the mine cars as has been your continuing distortion.

You are quite welcome, sir. Unfortunately, you are still not accurately referencing the source of the 174,0000 "coal mining jobs." That statistic was actually added to the SourceWatch wiki on February 6, 2009.

In fact, in the February 6, 2009, version of the SourceWatch Coal and jobs in the Unites States wiki, the following information was published:

There are approximately 174,000 blue-collar, full-time, permanent jobs related to coal in the U.S.: mining (83,000), transportation (31,000), and power plant employment (60,000). (See below for details on each sector.) The U.S. civilian labor force totaled 141,730,000 workers in 2005; thus, permanent blue-collar coal industry employees represent 0.12% of the U.S. workforce.[1] (Compare this percentage with the 1.89% of U.S. workers who worked in coal mining alone in 1920.)

Now, is it your contention that the number of "blue-collar, full-time, permanent jobs related to coal in the U.S." was exactly the same on February 6, 2009, as it was in November, 2017?

Before you answer, TRT, recall that developing and maintaining web applications has been part of my job for more than a decade. I understand how audit trails work. They exist to keep content managers of applications honest. Most of the time, audit trails are not available to public users, but in this case the webmasters of SourceWatch have chosen to make their audit trail public.

The number of coal mining jobs has dropped sharply since 2009 and so has the number of jobs related to coal mining. That is not a matter of opinion, that is a matter of fact. It is not my fact. It is not your fact. It is a fact that claims no ownership.