Bucky wrote:I agree. I think the word "Deplorables" probably won the election.

In order to bolster coal-fired and nuclear power plants, the Trump administration is working on a pair of federal laws to order grid operators to buy electricity from the plants.

The U.S. Department of Energy would use emergency authority to direct the operators from at-risk facilities, according to Bloomberg.

The agency also wants to develop a "Strategic Electric Generation Reserve" to promote national defense and maximize energy supplies, according to a draft National Security Council memo, Bloomberg reports.

Nuclear and coal-fired plants are struggling against renewable energy sources and cheaper natural gas.

Grotewold wrote:

Bucky wrote:I agree. I think the word "Deplorables" probably won the election.

Again — zero upside. A cheap thrill for guaranteed Dem voters.

But the "other" basket — the other basket — and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and — as well as, you know, New York and California — but that "other" basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but — he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.

Bucky wrote:I agree. I think the word "Deplorables" probably won the election.

Grotewold wrote:

Bucky wrote:I agree. I think the word "Deplorables" probably won the election.

Again — zero upside. A cheap thrill for guaranteed Dem voters.

pacino wrote:seize the means to own the libs:

In order to bolster coal-fired and nuclear power plants, the Trump administration is working on a pair of federal laws to order grid operators to buy electricity from the plants.

The U.S. Department of Energy would use emergency authority to direct the operators from at-risk facilities, according to Bloomberg.

The agency also wants to develop a "Strategic Electric Generation Reserve" to promote national defense and maximize energy supplies, according to a draft National Security Council memo, Bloomberg reports.

Nuclear and coal-fired plants are struggling against renewable energy sources and cheaper natural gas.

pacino wrote:

pacino wrote:seize the means to own the libs:

In order to bolster coal-fired and nuclear power plants, the Trump administration is working on a pair of federal laws to order grid operators to buy electricity from the plants.

The U.S. Department of Energy would use emergency authority to direct the operators from at-risk facilities, according to Bloomberg.

The agency also wants to develop a "Strategic Electric Generation Reserve" to promote national defense and maximize energy supplies, according to a draft National Security Council memo, Bloomberg reports.

Nuclear and coal-fired plants are struggling against renewable energy sources and cheaper natural gas.

I didn't want this to get bottom-paged

they are literally intervening to help struggling coal plants over growing renewable energy and natural gas sectors, both of whom employ far greater numbers of people in the very areas coal exists. way to own the libs?

Grotewold wrote:

Bucky wrote:I agree. I think the word "Deplorables" probably won the election.

Again — zero upside. A cheap thrill for guaranteed Dem voters.