> Cheap labor digs up the fossil fuels cheaply Only if you have fossil fuel to dig up though. To do that you need to have identified where it is and build the

> Cheap labor digs up the fossil fuels cheaply Only if you have fossil fuel to dig up though. To do that you need to have identified where it is and build the infrastructure and skills to be able to dig it up. Coal mines are far from everywhere, without them you would have to grow fuel and thus compete with human food.