Trump promised to bring back coal jobs. That promise will not be kept, experts say.

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24. They have as good as a chance as tenant farming coming back.

In other words, kiss it goodbye.

They have no comprehension that other competing sources of energy are cheaper and there fore reduce the demand for coal.

The only country that still finds coal viable over other sources is China...and they buy their coal from North Korea which uses slave labor. And even then, given the air pollution problems they have had....are starting to move away from it.

To make coal viable here in the us, for a short term more, is to cut out expensive labor and regulations that increase the price. So, anyone in the industry that saw the writing on the wall, became equipment operators. Once coal is no longer economically viable, the coal companies will pay out a generous bonus to the execs and declare bankruptcy. Oh and, turn WV into a super-fund site.

Those that don't realize what's happening, are in for a rude awakening. They'll be forced to take government assistance (the very assistance they keep voting to reduce). Oh and they'll keep looking for coal jobs thinking they aren't just looking hard enough or in the right place. Then once the mines shut down, then they'll know how workers at timber mills felt like when the company strip harvested everything they could do legally.

And why don't they see it? They've been raised and told their whole life that coal mining was their future and don't worry too much about school, bettering yourself, etc. So they never developed enough critical thinking skills that would allow them to realize, "hey that machine is going to replace a lot of us workers...and if there are more energy sources, what's going to happen to us?". And they buy into their lying sack of shit politician whose bought and paid for by the coal industry....who says "those damn liberals are trying to stop you from mining coal!".