West Virginians To Spend Entire Day In Prayer To Fight Catastrophic Obama Initiative
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On Jan. 31, many West Virginia legislators, business professionals and pastors plan to pray their hardest on behalf of their economy, which has suffered drastically due to President Barack Obama’s war on coal.
“The vast majority of the problem comes from President Obama and his EPA’s war on coal,” state Senate President Bill Cole, a Republican, explained to The Daily Signal.
Obama’s heavy-handed environmental regulations have effectively priced coal out of the energy market, thus leading to formerly successful companies going bankrupt and laying off thousands of employees.
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The situation in West Virginia grew even gloomier in August when Obama revealed the Clean Power Act, a global warming initiative designed to cut emissions from coal power plants by almost a third over a 15-year period.
By 2027, the United States would lose up to 479,000 jobs per year because of the plan, with over $100 billion sucked out of the nation’s gross domestic product annually. These are the types of losses that West Virginia simply cannot sustain any longer.
“We’ve closed down power plant after power plant and destroyed our own market for coal,” Cole said. “When you get into those southern coal communities, when coal goes away, it’s devastation and poverty in the worst form.”
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According to Cole, ostensible “ghost towns” now line West Virginia’s McDowell County. Whereas these towns used to brim with success, they now rank as some of the poorest in the country due to Obama’s war on coal.
With the state’s economy in shambles and Obama’s efforts against coal only growing, West Virginians have been left with only one option: prayer.
““West Virginia’s absolutely in dire straits,” said Roger Horton, president of Citizens for Coal, the organization leading the prayer effort. “The point we’re trying to stress is that we need a higher power to change the hearts and minds of those who want to destroy Appalachia.”
Our prayers are most certainly with them.
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