what would you tell a coal community in west virginia? well, the loss of jobs in the coal industry started with the mexico anization of the coal industry, natural gas started displacing coal in the fossil fuel sector. and promising to re-create the 19th century is not a visionary strategy for a successful 21st century. i i know what the late senator rort byrd from wesvirginia, i was a strong advocate, always have been, of creating new jobs for ones we shouldn t pretend will be back. the coal industry has been collapsing all over the world because of the smoke and the dust. also the global warming pollution has convinced country after country to shift away from it. some of this is not fact based. it is cultural based. and this is the hard part to break through. you as someone in tennessee