McCain:

My friends, I've been a coal booster and it's going to create jobs, and we're going to export coal to other countries and we are going to create hundreds of thousands of jobs."

Hmm... Bureau of Labor Statistics says here that the total US employment in the entire coal mining sector is just 77,460.

So if we aren't currently at 100,000 jobs in that sector, getting to hundreds of thousands requires one heck of a growth rate in the industry.