[Hoot Gibson]

Mild weather and coal prices? If you can't sell it for more than it cost to mine, why would they want to mine? I think Booth and Alpha are some pretty big companies.

I think so too and I think very few employees of either company voted for Barack Obama. It is amazing that somebody like Obama can openly detail his plans to cripple coal production in this country, spend 5-1/2 years executing that plan, and yet you are not honest enough to admit that he is doing exactly what he promised to do. Mild winters, mild summers, volatile gas prices, etc., have always contributed to boom and bust cycles of the coal industry. Arbitrary denial of mining permits and arbitrary changes to emissions rules for power plants that have been in operation for decades are what Obama brought to the table.