> Nobody wants to burn dirty coal if they can help it, but coal plants in lieu of importing oil Outside of a few places (i.e Hawaii) oil is not burned for elec

> Nobody wants to burn dirty coal if they can help it, but coal plants in lieu of importing oil Outside of a few places (i.e Hawaii) oil is not burned for electricity, so in that sense there isn't really a trade off between coal and oil in that way. When electric vehicles become broadly prevalent, then the tradeoff will exist, but only if we haven't done the job of deploying enough renewables by that time.