[Hoot Gibson]

^Well I appreciate the coal miners for doing their work, I just feel like they are pointing at people with those bumper stickers that aren't even in the discussion of coal.. Everytime I see one of those stickers I feel like they are just being arrogant about the whole deal, and feel as myself am being convited of something I didn't even do.

If you live in Kentucky and coal from Columbia, South Africa, or the Powder River Basin becomes cheaper for power plants in the eastern United States to burn, your life will be affected whether you want to believe it or not. There is nothing arrogant about fighting to maintain one's way of life.

Western coal and imported coal has been used in various parts of the eastern US for several decades but every time that Washington bureaucrats take actions to drive up the cost of mining coal, a little more Kentucky coal gets displaced in the market. It is much cheaper to mine coal where seams are thick and the overburden covering the coal is thin.

Kentucky coal's only major advantages is that it (and other central Appalachian coal) is the highest quality coal found anywhere in the world and it is located closer to eastern coal-fired power plants.

Are you aware that you will soon be unable to buy incandescent light bulbs in Kentucky? Your choice in light bulbs will soon be between expensive compact fluorescent bulbs or even more expensive LEDs.

Texas (and maybe another state or two) has passed a law that will allow Texans to buy light bulbs made and sold within Texas. I don't know if such a law has been proposed in Kentucky but if not, maybe a bumper sticker would be in order.

Tree huggers and the liberal political hacks who do their bidding are destroying our economy.

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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

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A bumper sticker is not much but it is better than nothing.