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I just got a flashback to Trump enunciating “Clean coal, beautiful clean coal!”

• ZeroGravitas 2y ago
  Almost exactly as you were making this comment he signed a bunch of stuff to "Reinvigorates America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry": https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reinvigorates-americas-beautiful-clean-coal-industry/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr...
  • jiggawatts 2y ago
    And then he’s going to extort trading partners like the EU by essentially forcing them to buy polluting coal from the US or face ongoing sanctions.
    • rsynnott 2y ago
      This is what he's talking about, but... it doesn't make any sense, at all. What would "forcing the EU to buy coal" entail? The EU isn't a command economy and has no potential use for coal _itself_. The EU contains companies which require coal (albeit demand has been dropping for some time) but they're just going to buy whatever's cheapest, and particularly given it's _coal_, and has a very low value per tonne, that's generally more or less going to mean whatever's closest. Unless American coal was _radically_ cheaper than any other coal, it would be hard to cover the extra transport cost.
  • rsynnott 2y ago
    Oh, wow. I assumed you were joking about the title, but... Is he having a toddler ghost-write these for him now?