Trump Save the miners

[ratled]

I got bombed about a speech Trump gave, I think yesterday or the day before, where Trump gave a speech to save the miners. I don't follow this stuff much or watch the news and all of their sound bites but I might want to hear/read this. Anyone have a link or know what speech this was part of?

TIA

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[mendoAu]

I drive for uber in the Denver metro area and I drive lots of Eco-nazis. I love telling them about my panning hobby because they freak out on me. Then I get to tell them how everything they eat, own and use is because of mining. They then say we don't eat rocks or wear rocks. I then point out their synthetic fiber shirt(from petroleum), the salad they had for lunch(from potash and petro fertilizer) and the lights at there house( from coal/nuclear/gas). By the end of the ride I usually can convince about the positives of mining. But some are so rabid and lost nothing gets through.

How about taking out the back seat (metal, petrolium based fabric, foam) and let them ride on a couple of big rocks.......

 

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[OwenT]

How about taking out the back seat (metal, petrolium based fabric, foam) and let them ride on a couple of big rocks.......

Where do you get the rocks?

 

[kcm]

He was talking about "mining" in general.

 

[Pyrofx]

Last year we hauled 425 coal sets out of Gillete Wy each month . Our anointed one goes to the world summit and coal is being shut down . We are moving 125 sets a month now .
What is a coal set you ask?
A train hauling 115 cars of coal . Total weight .... 14,000 tons.
We have 4500 guys furloughed on the BNSF railroad . UP even more .About 1500 coal miners laid off in the last 6 months.
Solar , great. But what about all the toxic chemicals that get spewed . Glad its China and not us right.....
The problem is noboady looked at a plan that would ease people into unemployement.
But look at it this way , I'll have a lot of time to prospect...
Greg

 

[OwenT]

China runs on coal, so if we start buying a lot of solar panels maybe they'll need you in the mines over there . Prospecting sounds better though.

 

[AU_Solitude]

Last year we hauled 425 coal sets out of Gillete Wy each month . Our anointed one goes to the world summit and coal is being shut down . We are moving 125 sets a month now .
What is a coal set you ask?
A train hauling 115 cars of coal . Total weight .... 14,000 tons.
We have 4500 guys furloughed on the BNSF railroad . UP even more .About 1500 coal miners laid off in the last 6 months.
Solar , great. But what about all the toxic chemicals that get spewed . Glad its China and not us right.....
The problem is noboady looked at a plan that would ease people into unemployement.
But look at it this way , I'll have a lot of time to prospect...
Greg

Yeah, that's my hometown and it has put a number of family and friends out of work. If nothing changes, all of North Eastern Wyoming is going to turn into a string of ghost towns.

 

[wildminer]

Where do you get the rocks?

Gillete, Wyoming

 

[Pyrofx]

I ran out of Edgemont. After being raised in the East bay area of California , I LOVE small town America.
Greg

 

[KevinInColorado]

Coal is getting killed here in CO by the electric company using a combo of wind and low cost natural gas. That's the new reality for coal mining unless we can get the export process ramped up. The electric co says wind/gas is cheaper than coal. It's economics not politics...

PS I used to consult for Amax Coal, which ran a couple big mines outside Gillette, as you probably know. I was up there a couple times in the 90's and really enjoyed seeing the operations from the inside. You really have my sympathy and support. Can I suggest getting into construction and moving to metro Denver? TONS of jobs to be had! (And gold in the creeks in town as you've seen from my prospector's journal)

PPS if Trump wants to help get our coal exports going he's going to have to reconsider his crazy idea about slapping a big tariff on Chinese imports. Just sayin'.

 

[kcm]

The technology already exists that coal for power plants really isn't needed any longer. Same for wind/solar. Problem is, the folks that are making money on the production and use of coal don't want to quit using coal in its entirety. The only ones that want to end coal completely are the ones who have vested interests in other things. Hmm...now why was Obrother pushing solar so hard?!?!?

Btw, that's not politics - that's GREED!! .....Ok, so it IS politics!