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hunter

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4. This is a fantastic opportunity to shut down the U.S. coal industry for good.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Mon Apr 27, 2020, 03:38 PM

Apr 2020

We could offer early retirement or five years of unemployment benefits to everyone who is currently digging coal out of the ground and then we'd be done with it.

France closed its last coal mine in 2004. Wouldn't it be great if we closed our last coal mine this year?

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In COVID Crisis, Coal Accounting For Barely More Than 15% Of US Generation During Energy Crash [View all] hatrack Apr 2020 OP

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This is a fantastic opportunity to shut down the U.S. coal industry for good. hunter Apr 2020 #4