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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 08:14 PM Jan 2018

Aww, Robert Murray (Coal magnate) has a sad!

The CEO of the nation’s largest privately held coal mining company says President Trump should fire four of the five commissioners who rejected Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s plan to help coal and nuclear power plants.

Robert Murray, head of Murray Energy Corp., said the members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), an independent agency, “defaulted” on their duties by rebuffing the plan to stop coal and nuclear plants from closing. Supporters said the reliability of the electric grid was at stake.

“I believe that the Trump administration, with the exception of Neil Chatterjee, picked three bad appointees for FERC. And they should all be fired,” Murray told The Hill on Tuesday.

Murray is an outspoken advocate for coal. He accused former President Obama of being the “nation’s greatest destroyer” and said last year that Obama should be charged criminally for actions toward the coal industry.

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http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/368202-coal-mogul-trump-should-fire-energy-officials-for-rejecting-perry

I can just see Bob stomping around going "How DARE those minions not do my bidding! I paid good money for them!"

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Aww, Robert Murray (Coal magnate) has a sad! (Original Post) n2doc Jan 2018 OP
HA! He CAN'T fire them! elleng Jan 2018 #1
Up yours, Bob. TheCowsCameHome Jan 2018 #2
i'm going to run for president on bringing back whale oil Takket Jan 2018 #3
Fuck him! I am so sick of all these greedy plutocrats who care about nothing more than lining their smirkymonkey Jan 2018 #4
Tough shit asshole Phoenix61 Jan 2018 #5
Murray's boy, Chatterjee. CurtEastPoint Jan 2018 #6
Bob the Miner Killer Murray is all Wellstone ruled Jan 2018 #7
Is this the guy who gets instructions from squirrels? TygrBright Jan 2018 #8
Haaaaaaaaaaa Gabi Hayes Jan 2018 #10
The guy looks like he has one foot in the grave as it is. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2018 #9

elleng

(131,077 posts)
1. HA! He CAN'T fire them!
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 08:22 PM
Jan 2018

'By law, FERC has five members, not more than three of whom can be from the same political party. Each serves a five-year term. The president designates the chairman.'

The little-known federal agency with the power to buck Trump’s anti-climate agenda.

https://thinkprogress.org/federal-agency-with-power-to-buck-trump-on-climate-e531eb29da1d/

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)
2. Up yours, Bob.
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 08:23 PM
Jan 2018

I watched this horrible POS on a PBS show (Frontline?) a few months ago doing handstands as Scott Pruitt peeled back every coal-related environmental protection regulation he could get his grubby hands on.

Later I saw Robert Murray with oxygen tubes shoved up his pig-like snout. How's that filthy coal dust workin' out now, asshole?

How I despise this greedy scumbag.....

Takket

(21,620 posts)
3. i'm going to run for president on bringing back whale oil
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 08:25 PM
Jan 2018

all these fancy dancy modern "coal" burners. HA! in my day real men killed whales for their oil! Why is no one speaking up for the unemployed whale hunter??????????????????

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
4. Fuck him! I am so sick of all these greedy plutocrats who care about nothing more than lining their
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 08:32 PM
Jan 2018

fat bank accounts. They are all heartless pigs. There is nothing more I would like to see than a French or Russian revolution type of round up with all these fat cats begging for their lives and soiling themselves while the masses descend upon them.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
7. Bob the Miner Killer Murray is all
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 08:52 PM
Jan 2018

pissed because California will not let his Friends in Salt Lake City build a new Coal loading Terminal . Gee Bobby,you think the People of LA want your Coal Dust? Not!! BTW,hows that new Coal Mining Venture working out,or is it about to go Bust?

TygrBright

(20,763 posts)
8. Is this the guy who gets instructions from squirrels?
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 08:56 PM
Jan 2018

The one who's suing John Oliver?

'cause that dude NEVER runs outta things to be angry about.

interestedly,
Bright

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,170 posts)
9. The guy looks like he has one foot in the grave as it is.
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 09:34 PM
Jan 2018

He should mellow the fuck out and enjoy the rest of his life.

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