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There was never a war on coal; and Trump didn’t make the US an energy exporter.
Topic Started: Feb 8 2018, 02:14 PM (22 Views)
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https://www.vox.com/2018/1/30/16953292/trump-war-on-coal-claim-fact-checked

In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Trump squeezed in a brief boast about his administration’s energy policy.

“We have ended the war on American energy — and we have ended the war on beautiful, clean coal,” he said. “We are now very proudly an exporter of energy to the world.”


These statements are misleading on several counts. President Obama didn’t wage a “war on coal,” as Trump has often claimed. (Read Vox’s David Roberts in-depth explainer on this.) Trump hasn’t made the US an energy exporter. He also doesn’t seem to have a good grasp on what “clean coal” is.

The United States has exported coal, oil, natural gas, and energy technology for decades, and in recent years, the amount of energy the country is exporting has started to catch up to the amount of energy the United States brings in.


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