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    I wonder if america could sustain the coal industry by only using the coal to make oil.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
    I wonder if america could sustain the coal industry by only using the coal to make oil.
    Not a chance. The process is too costly compared to oil-sands and fracking.
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    What are these people thinking? Do they hate their own children so much?
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    Killing the Clean Power Plan turns out to be difficult; good thing the EPA has nothung but money to spend on the process:

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2017...just-starting/
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    It is 29th April and Mankind is still effecting the Climate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
    It is 29th April and Mankind is still effecting the Climate.
    You give us too much credit. Affecting perhaps (most would say certainly), but effecting? A tall order for us "insignificant-on-the-scale-of-the-universe" hominids.
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