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Originally Posted by Tom
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Our side has jobs.
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Here is something Trump can explain in his next campaign. There are 260,077 solar workers and 4,854,300 retail workers in the U.S. as opposed to around 70,000 coal workers. Now if you were the president, wouldn't you worry a lot more about all the retail workers who are losing jobs to companies like Amazon, and the solar industry which is providing more jobs each year? Even the wind industry has more workers than coal. Saving coal jobs doesn't amount to much compared to renewable fuels and the retail sector. Why don't we focus there?
Most utilities will shut their coal burning plants over the next 10 years or so anyway. Not because they hate coal but because they can't meet environmental standards without spending a lot more money on a 70 year old plant meant to be retired after 30 years.
