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Why U.S. doesn't rely more on extensively on its vast coal reserves?
Why U.S. doesn't rely more on extensively on its vast coal reserves
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- simplicitusLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Have you though about this at all?
1. At current prices, producing electricity from natural gas is cheaper than from coal.
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Cheap-natur...
2. There are so many externalities to using coal that even if nominal prices were lower than natural gas we shouldn't want to use coal:
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/tallying...
3. And furthermore, per unit energy, coal has much more greenhouse gas emissions than either oil or natural gas.
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2010-06-25/natur...
So why would you want to rely more extensively on coal? Are you going to suggest going back to asbestos too?
