About those Coal jobs

So President Trump said he was going to bring back coal jobs.
He also blames environmental and minor safety regulations as the reason those jobs went away.
Trouble is, like almost everything else he says that is a lie.
Coal jobs have been in decline for a long time and started that under Republican watch.
Coal Countries decline has a long history
Cheaper forms of energy such as natural gas make coal mining less profitable and automation has cut down on the number of workers needed for the same amount of production.
Coal industry leaders recognize that significant jobs will never return.  So what can we do?
Republicans can subsidize coal jobs like they do for oil but as they get more bribery money from oil and gas companies that seems unlikely.
And for he fiscally conservative but ethical republicans that would not sit well anyhow.
We are also losing manufacturing jobs and not so much to foreign site as due to automation.

That is the real key.  We need to invest in long term job growth for new industries.
John Oliver monologue on Coal
Coal Industry Jobs as an overall part of the Economy