Freeing Ourselves From Coal Corporate Control, with Solar Assistance

THESE ARE DARK DAYS for the coal mining industry, and getting darker. Wind energy and solar energy are sweeping across America and the world, replacing fossil fuels, as we work to clean ourselves up and halt man made climate change. Natural gas is a short term transition stage. billionaire mine owners and log cabin coal miners are both expressing regret at the decline of coal, understandably, but both groups will be fine, eventually, as they adjust and integrate into the new economy. Humans are very adaptable, which has been and shall long remain a key to their survival on Earth. You have to assume that the billionaire and millionaire fossil fuel corporate owners and managers are, even as we speak, divesting and reinvesting, at least a little bit, in wind and solar, correct? No reason why billionaires can't remain billionaires; you just have to know how to adjust, and make good decisions. Worker retraining and adult education is also sweeping across the fruited plain; in our day and age, most folks pursue more than a single career during their fork lifetime, and many of us continue lifelong learning. If we the American people want the wind and solar energy industries in the hands of a few huge corporations, a monopoly industry, well, rest assured we can have it that way. but if we want to develop these industries with a more cooperative, egalitarian citizen empowering approach, why, surely that can be arranged as well. its all about what the people want, and demand. Maybe we can find a way to put the tops back on all those denuded, truncated mountains as we close the mines down, and make them look green and pretty again. Getting the smog out of the air in places like Appalachia and Los Angeles might be nice too. Nice enough, perhaps, to make it a worthwhile goal. Each day more and more Americans install solar panels atop their homes, and our electric utility companies are getting nervous, very nervous, seeing a great potential, probably loss of profit. Well, so be it. Our poor little ole billionaire utility company owners will just have to adjust, like the rest of us. A nation of energy independent American families, solar panels up top, living free from corporate control. How sweet it is!!