Trump's First 100 Days

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(03-28-2017, 11:39 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: I'm going to hate myself for this, but.....

To be fair, Obama stifled clean coal research.
According to some "friends of friends" there was some decent stuff coming along for coal.
That is why AEP had put money into some older plants.
After the Obama hammer, AEP put many up for sale, sometimes only partial ownership  (as I'm told that reduces liability in litigation).
I'm guessing Trump is opening those avenues back up.
Sad thing is that a lot of money was going to a Canadian company, who was working on scrubbers for the emissions.
Meh, as long as they can minimize the ecological impact.

Disclaimer: The preceding was in no way an endorsement of Trump, or his policies.
It was just a relay of facts that I've been privy to.
(There's a coal burning power plant, just outside my city. My Grandfather was a supervisor and I know many that work there.)

I am firmly in the clean coal is a load of shit camp. It is 2017 we have better ways of producing energy. 

Tell me this doesn't sound like a Donald Trump rip off the tax payer deal...

From the Wilbur Ross that bailed out Trump from a Taj Mahal bankruptcy and moved on to a leading position at the bank of Cyprus where the Russians enjoy doing business..... I give you one of my thoughts about why Trump cares about coal. 

Wilbur Ross sold the coal business he owned, International Coal Group (ICG) for 3.4 BILLION dollars in 2011. When he was known as the "king of bankruptcy". He bought failing things and flipped them. The company Ross sold ICG too (Arch Coal) filed bankruptcy in 2016. And erased 5 billion in debt including environmental clean up costs. 

Talk about a sweet deal. Ross pockets 3.4 billion. Tax payers get the 5 billion dollar bill? 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_Coal

Someone good enough to launder the Russians money. Who was known as the king of bankruptcy. Probably in some way got back in to the coal industry after he made billions and put tax payers on the hook for a multi billion dollar bankruptcy bill. 

Clean coal is like saying i shit air freshener turds. The con man Trump and his boys will sell you air freshener turds. Nothing better to freshen the room you display your Trump U diploma in.