Hi, Bart
I’ve been following the coal mine story and the total number of miners killed over the
last several years. What is wrong with us that we allow this to continue? I’d rather
sit in the dark for 2 hours every night than to take the lives of so many hard-working men
and women so that I can have cheap electricity.
Mary in Texas
Bart says: Mary, like GM’s exploding pickup trucks, it’s cheaper to pay the families of a few victims than make the mines safe. How hard would it be to sink a 6-foot tall steel pipe
into each mine that would allow the men to walk out after a collapse?
How hard would it be to run a one inch steel pipe with phone wires and cameras into each
mine so they could communicate after a collapse?
Men go into mines that aren’t safe because their parents did - and that’s crazy.
Joe Strummer: “You must not act the way you were brought up.”
Bottom line: Mine owners and crooked Bush don’t care how many men die.
Bart it’s cheaper to donate $100,000 to the Republicans so they appoint mine owners to regulatory positions than to deal with the UMWA.
Comment by greyhawk — August 19, 2007 @ 12:53 pm