[Les Paul]

In about an hour I will be unloading the last coal train at a chemical plant I work at for the next 3 years. It is high BTU so called clean coal. I think this place has averaged 1 coal train per week for 29 years. 1 coal train has over 100 cars at 110-115 tons per car. And this plant uses it because it was/is so much cheaper than natural gas although we sit in the big ass middle of numerous gas fields. Shutting this mf down to make what we make in China cheaper go figure. Slashing 500 jobs in a town of 20,000 to let the chinese make what we make cheaper. Not safer, better, way less polution standards, no scrubbers on their coal boilers. I digress. In 3 years they are coming back with this plant only turning the coal boilers into basically a big power plant instead of using the steam for heat exchangers.

So when it comes back on line they'll burn 2 coal trains per week of low btu highly sulfurous crap because it is even cheaper. I'm so proud of these losers and so glad to be retired in 7 months.