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There's plenty of coal to go around, Estonia & Poland are two examples of nearby countries relying primarily on local coal for energy. Also, Germany is not Rus

• rich_sasha 5y ago
  These days, ironically, Poland mainly burns Russian coal (EDIT erroneusly wrote "gas" initially). After years of indecision as to what to do with Polish coal plants, they got too expensive and underinvested to produce the required quantities of coal. The rest is imported from the East. So the whole "ah but we need coal for energy independence" is mostly a song and dance nowadays.