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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.


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-propos...


Stupid me, I assumed coal was so cheap and globally abundant that shipping it internationally would not make sense.


Shipping is just surprisingly cheap.


Especially out of the US, since containers are mostly empty


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.




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