[RhysU]

If I kill a car's engine or kill the music or kill this conversation do you understand what I mean?

The executive branch killed the coal industry. It was a swift action to bring something to a close.

That people in this thread can't disentangle one sense of "kill" from another is disappointing. My "murder" examples probably didn’t help but I figured people might enjoy the nuances (All of them could have been written about turning off, or killing, a bad radio station vs a good radio station and the arguments hold). Lesson learned.

My point has never been about the extent to which coal usage ends the life of humans. Frankly, that doesn't matter to anything I have said.