Trump is living in the Past

Trump is so unrealistic he is living in the 1950s still.

You can see it for example regarding Coal but also in relation to Oil as well. Though Oil isn't going away any time soon as a maker of plastics which we need, even oil is going away slowly (at least in the U.S.) in regard to Solar and wind.

The reason for this is that for some time now Solar is much much more cost effective than oil for running vehicles now. It has been this way for some time. And it passed coal in being more cost effective than coal likely 10 to 20 years ago.

So, when Trump talks about getting coal mining jobs back likely he is being completely unrealistic because those days are gone (at least here in the U.S.). Coal is just no longer cost effective (at least here in the U.S.) because of just how efficient Solar and wind have become.

California is a very progressive state. You see solar in the deserts of California because most of the year there are no clouds at all. There might be haze from a nearby city but that's all most of the year.

You see places like the whole Palm Springs area that has ALL it's electricity supplied by Wind generators in that area.

Also, in California 10% or more now of all new vehicles are either hybrids or all electric like Teslas, Nissan leafs or whatever. This helps reduce the price of Gasoline at the pumps not only in Califronia, but throughout the United States and even around the world.

So, the best way to put this is Coal is Gone already and Oil is on it's way out in the U.S. right now and slowly this will happen all over the world as well.

Also, coal doesn't (right now at least) run cars because it isn't cost effective. So, where is coal used?

Not in places like California at all. There is nothing that I presently know of in California that runs on coal. No place no thing that I presently know of runs on coal in the entire state of California.

Why?

Because it is completely not cost effective here at all.

So, who uses coal? Likely it is used mostly by people on the East coast who haven't changed their heaters to natural gas yet from coal and by a few coal fired electrical generating stations.

But, once natural gas or solar or wind producers get going in those states less and less people are going to be even using coal at all and so coal is going to get more and more expensive because of the labor used to get it out of the ground. So, even there if coal operators want to save money they are going to hire robots not men to mine because robots are much less expensive to mine coal than men are. And if there is a mine mishap the robots might even be left in place in the mines because there are no people to rescue or bodies to recover.

So, even on this level it is more cost effective to hire robots than men at this point too.

So, where are all the coal mining jobs?

They are back in the 1950s and 1960s still because coal is not cost effective for anyone anymore.