US working 'very hard to build a future for coal,' DOE official says

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[The Genealogist]

1. Up next: whip socket and rotary phine industry to return soon?

[progree]

2. A little bit of good news in all this ...

Steven Winberg, assistant secretary for fossil energy at the U.S. Department of Energy, discussed the agency's efforts to improve the outlook for coal at the Eastern Fuel Buyers Conference in Orlando, Fla., on May 9.

... "If we don't find a way to cost-effectively capture and utilize CO2, I don't see any coal being built in the United States," Winberg said. "That's just the way it is."

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3. Why?

[TheRealNorth]

4. So much for the free market

I mean, are we going to subsidize paper/lumber companies and steam engine manufacturers also?

Imagine all the coal and lumbering jobs if we went back to steam engines.

[SCantiGOP]

5. While we're at it

Can the government help the struggling whale oil business? How else will we power our flickering lamps at night? I certainly don’t want to depend on this new-fangled electric light industry.

[TheRealNorth]

6. Surprised Trump hasn't yet

Just to stick it to Greenpeace and PETA. The deplorables eat that shit up.