Look, we use wood at home now, and given the chimneys in this house everyone else here has always done that too (or the house wouldn't have made it). My point

Look, we use wood at home now, and given the chimneys in this house everyone else here has always done that too (or the house wouldn't have made it). My point is that this sort of transition isn't immediate and universal. Some people had the motivation and opportunity to use coal, there were lots of advantages and it spread... slowly... at the same time the infrastructure to extract and distribute it developed.