Old plants that had been scheduled to close had avoided maintenance which is cause of expense increase that happens to be in line with nuking plants from orbit and replacing with untariffed solar

Bergum was on media yesterday celebrating expansion of coal mining. And what total losers New England states are for getting extorted by utilities/Trump energy policy. Their offshore wind projects were going to bring down electricity prices. Forcing them to reopen dead coal plants is subjugation to fossil fuel producing red states. Coal has tangible unpleasant local pollution, and miner health destruction, in addition to climate destruction. Wind can support more local jobs than coal plants.

This is yet another reason to secede from fascism, instead of pretending democracy exists. When an administration is set to destroy your region because you vote wrong, you need an alternative to just glorifying a completely rigged vote process. Industrial/tariff policy is also mostly a regional boost that inflicts overall national consumer pain. Expensive energy and metals means expensive manufacturing and finished goods. The social unity value of supporting Pennsylvania steel workers gets betrayed by the vote rigging /buying that is used to subjugate human Americans.