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<blockquote data-quote="MAKAVELI" data-source="post: 2466994" data-attributes="member: 43825"><a href="http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/tom-eblen/article114126628.html" target="_blank">Despite promises by Trump, GOP, here’s why a coal jobs revival isn’t coming</a>But the reason Appalachia’s coal economy isn’t coming back has a lot less to do with regulation than with free-market economics. Eastern Kentucky’s dwindling coal reserves are now more costly to mine than coal from other regions, making it less competitive.An even bigger factor is cheap and abundant natural gas from hydraulic fracking. That is the main reason the percentage of American electricity generated by burning coal has fallen from one-half to one-third since 2008.Read more here: <a href="http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/tom-eblen/article114126628.html#storylink=cpy" target="_blank">Despite promises by Trump, GOP, here’s why a coal jobs revival isn’t coming</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="MAKAVELI, post: 2466994, member: 43825"] [URL="http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/tom-eblen/article114126628.html"]Despite promises by Trump, GOP, here’s why a coal jobs revival isn’t coming[/URL] But the reason Appalachia’s coal economy isn’t coming back has a lot less to do with regulation than with free-market economics. Eastern Kentucky’s dwindling coal reserves are now more costly to mine than coal from other regions, making it less competitive. An even bigger factor is cheap and abundant natural gas from hydraulic fracking. That is the main reason the percentage of American electricity generated by burning coal has fallen from one-half to one-third since 2008. Read more here: [URL="http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/tom-eblen/article114126628.html#storylink=cpy"]Despite promises by Trump, GOP, here’s why a coal jobs revival isn’t coming[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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