Bates is no General Patton. If Patton was running the company, they would not be in this mess. Patton would have had a tactical plan to mine coal in 2010, and with strong leadership he would have executed the plan. Bates had Plan A which failed, then Plan B which failed, then Plan C which also failed, and now he has another plan, possibly a desperate last-ditch plan. Do you really
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