>Cheap energy should always be a priority. Environmentalists agree with this statement. As an energy source, coal has a relatively low price sans regulations.

>Cheap energy should always be a priority. Environmentalists agree with this statement. As an energy source, coal has a relatively low price sans regulations. However, the true cost is not captured by markets. Burning coal causes smog, soot, acid rain, global warming, and toxic air emissions and produces ash, sludge, and other harmful pollutants as waste products, externalizing and diffusing the cost to society. Your 'cheap energy price' strategy is like an apocryphal example of the tragedy of the commons