Peabody Coal has done a disservice to its workers.
Let's be honest. That is welfare for coal executives making rate payers pay 30 percent more. That is just wrong.
Again, the coal industry now has 75,000 workers, but the wind industry has 75,000 workers and the solar industry has 100...
We just across the board had a 15 percent reduction in our electricity rates. That is without coal.
But the coal industry said NO. And Republicans said NO. They said NO to innovation.
Newer, cheaper, cleaner technologies are beating coal. The free market is beating coal.
I just hope that the record is clear out there and this gets reported as the real story.
They said no. They said no. They said no over and over again to innovation.
In reality the fact is mountaintop removal is killing people.
In George Bush's words 'We need this coal, our homeland security depends on it.'
Democrats saw this coming. In 2009, the Waxman-Markey bill allocated $60 BILLION to coal.