[TidesHoss32]

Coal is the only way. I myself was layed off at the beginnin of August. I wasn't a miner. I was a salesman for a drill supply company. I sold drill steel, drill bits, bit subs, top subs, deck bushings, etc. With the decline in EKY, companies shuttin down, cuttin hours back, and cuttin back on their spendin, they had no choice but to let me go.

As for the treehuggers, no they don't care about the families who are sufferin. The worst part about all of it, they don't realize that it's not just coal miners and their families. If they were to do away with MTD, it was also put companies like CAT, Komatsu, Atlas Copco and many more out of business.

Your right bro, as I have an uncle thats worked for Joy for over 25 years and he said that this year has been the hardest to date. So the companies that provide the parts to these mines are feeling it too. Wildcatk23 or for who was asking, at the mines I worked before I got crushed, we had 36 workers for three shifts, and thankfully they are running well enough that they havent had to cut back any since March when they laid off the contractors and a couple of company men..
So yeah, I support coal.