If US President Donald Trump really wants to boost coal production, bring back coal jobs, and restore the US coal industry to its former glory -- oh, never mind. Seriously, he must be joking (screenshot, courtesy of US EIA).
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You can’t make this stuff up. Faced with a mounting wave of voter rage over high electricity costs, US President Donald Trump is piling on the hurt with a new, billion-dollar effort to build new coal power plants and keep the old ones running well past their sell-by dates, resulting in huge expenses that will be passed on to ratepayers. If Democratic candidates smell blood in the water as the 2026 midterm elections approach — and they do — Trump is only helping them.
Coal Miners Stabbed In The Back, Part 1
By now, everyone knows that wind and solar (especially solar) are the fastest, most economical ways to get more electricity into the hands of more ratepayers, with modern energy storage and smart grid technology filling in the gaps in availability.
