«Look, if a train derails carrying coal, no big deal,» he said,
because coal trains are unlikely to cause significant harm to others nearby when they go off tracks.
Not exact matches
He has used strong words and imagery before to drive home points, including comparing cordons of
coal cars heading to power plants to the death
trains of the Holocaust (
because of the mass extinctions foreseen by many biologists should warming go unabated).
Just
because she doesn't call
coal plants «death
trains» doesn't mean that the implication isn't there.
One reason is that
because of all the capital investment (pipelines,
coal trains, deals with dictators controlling oil and gas fields) which would be worthless in a nuclear world.