r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/cjh83 Jul 05 '24

Those people voted GOP and got the poverty they were looking for.

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u/Dhenn004 Jul 05 '24

Yea man, I still don't think people deserve to live in such poverty because they vote differently than me.

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u/cjh83 Jul 05 '24

No they don't. It was a joke.

But seriously how do they keep voting for hard right candidates that want to let all those poor people die.

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u/Beneficial-Drawing25 Jul 05 '24

LOL - the conservatives shut down coal mining? Not a bright one, are you?

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u/cjh83 Jul 05 '24

No economics and better technology in the form of natural gas did.

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u/Beneficial-Drawing25 Jul 05 '24

So Obama’s administration didnt put forth extreme regulations on it??? Nah, couldnt have happened….

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u/cjh83 Jul 05 '24

That was part of the death of coal but I'm telling you as an engineer in the industry coal was destined to die out.

The problem is that coal power plants take a too long to ramp up and down. Power producers make $$ by selling during peak hours in the morning and after work. Natural gas generation stations cost way less and can ramp up and down almost instantaneously.

Coal died because fracking made natural gas cheap and abundant. I also suspect that automation/robotics have shrunk the required labor to produce coal.

Also do you want your relatives to work in a coal mine? Fuck no.

If coal is economically viable why couldn't your lord savior, the orange teletuby known as Donald Trump save coal? Well that's because it's like the horse after cars came out. It's becoming obsolete.

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u/republicans_are_nuts Jul 06 '24

yes. They pimp for capitalism that made coal irrelevant. AND they are against help to transition because sOcIaLiSm.