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Coal is dying fast in the US. It’s international coal use (India and China) that is the problem. The coal lobby has nothing to do with that.

• teachrdan 3y ago
  The US coal lobby is fighting for more domestic infrastructure for shipping coal internationally. That would lower the price of coal, thus increasing demand and consumption. https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/03/6-year-battle-over-proposed-west-oakland-coal-terminal-could-soon-end/ https://oaklandside.org/2022/02/03/6-year-battle-over-propos...
  • slashdev 3y ago
    After fucking over Canada on the Keystone XL pipeline, I hope the Biden administration sticks to their “principles” and shuts that down too. It will be interesting to see.
  • fbdab103 3y ago
    Stupid me, I assumed coal was so cheap and globally abundant that shipping it internationally would not make sense.
    • slashdev 3y ago
      Shipping is just surprisingly cheap.
      • acchow 3y ago
        Especially out of the US, since containers are mostly empty