Speaking in January of 2008 Obama warned us that his incoming administration would basically go Gestapo on the Coal Industry, and impose so many new rules, regulations, and fees on coal mines and plants, that would ratchet up each year, and eventually Obama’s “green energy” regulations, goons and henchmen would bankrupt the entire Coal Industry.

“if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can.. it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all of that greenhouse gasses that’s being emitted. That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in wind, solar, biodiesel, and other alternatively energy approaches.”

Now it’s coming true, and due to Obama’s War on Coal, thousands of people are about to lose their jobs as Alpha Natural Resources has recently announced that it will be closing eight coal mines, and laying-off 1,200 coal miners in three states.

House Democrats joined Republicans Friday in voting to restrain environmental regulators from hurting the coal industry, battling what mining-state lawmakers call a “war on coal” that just