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| Coal Mining around the world |
Sadly, Trump is much concerned with what he calls trade imbalances. Truth is, our Canadian population is a fraction of the US, 36 million to 323 million. It makes more sense to trade goods, without a tariff, on the western part of the continent, across the border, and the same on the eastern coasts.
Hubby was reading some data in The Economist.
YEAR
1920 –785,000 coal miners in the USA.
2012 – it dropped to 90,000 miners.
2017 –50,000 miners in the USA.
1980 –Mines produced 1.9 tons per miner hour,
2017 –Mines can produce 6.3 tons per miner hour, 3x's more efficient!
"Some of Europe’s last remaining coal producers, in the Czech Republic, Romania and Poland, are grasping for government support to keep from going under and taking thousands of jobs with them.
Talks in Prague and Bucharest this week coincide with the news that the world’s largest private coal company, Peabody Energy, filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S."
“Coal power was a part of our past...Our prosperity now depends on our ability to move forward with a clean energy future.” https://t.co/RrfxTrFdwk— Energiewende Germany (@EnergiewendeGER) January 5, 2018
THE TRUTH ABOUT JOBS: Clean Energy Creates WAY More Jobs Than Dirty Fossil Fuels Like Oil, Coal, Oil Sands & Gas #WEF18 #climatechange #Davos pic.twitter.com/iizypA3b2e— Jim Harris @ #WEF18 (@JimHarris) January 25, 2018
With Trump making a speech at Davos today, I wonder if it'll be the same old, same old!THE TRUTH ABOUT JOBS: Clean Energy Creates WAY More Jobs Than Dirty Fossil Fuels Like Oil, Coal, Oil Sands & Gas #WEF18 #climatechange #Davos pic.twitter.com/iizypA3b2e— Jim Harris @ #WEF18 (@JimHarris) January 25, 2018
Trump on the Affordable Healthcare Act: "You pay NOT to have insurance." No, you pay into a pot, to ensure that if you need it it will be there for you, just like life insurance.
Yet, 13 million will lose health insurance with his legislation.
