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I have to wonder if this is a play towards coal miners, who are part of the conservative base - and they need every vote they can get. Coal is an awful source o
by leptons 14d ago
I have to wonder if this is a play towards coal miners, who are part of the conservative base - and they need every vote they can get. Coal is an awful source of power, and a really big source of pollution.
- bunderbunder 14d agoI doubt they really care about coal miners’ actual votes. The US coal mining industry employs fewer than 50,000 people. I live in a major coal producing state and while it was an important industry in my grandparents’ time, these days it isn’t a particularly noteworthy share of our economy. I would say if it’s specifically about coal at all, it’s more because of the GOP’s tendency toward weird nostalgic obsessions.
- pjc50 13d agoEntirely seriously, but stupid: it's gender politics. Coal mining is manly coded, renewables are feminine coded and therefore deemed bad by the right.
- leptons 13d agoI should have included voters in all the communities in coal mining areas, not just the miners - all the families and everyone of voting age in coal mining areas who now might think that coal mining is coming back (and it just might under trump). Revoking limits on pollution by power plants benefits coal more than any other form of energy production.