• prettybunnys@piefed.social
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    13 days ago

    Idk if you’re just wildly misinterpreting what I am saying or ???

    The foreign coal markets are what is keeping the American coal industry afloat. That’s what I am saying.

    The USA is largely phasing coal out, Trump and co are trying to stop this because they’re stupid.

    The coal industry in the USA is dead without foreign purchasers.m, of which China is one.

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      13 days ago

      Exactly, which is why China is so important. If they even have a fairly small drop in coal consumption, that basically kills US coal exports and therefore the US coal industry.

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        13 days ago

        Much like the cigarette market, dominated by American tobacco producers, looks to the rest of the world.

        You’ve caught up with my statement.

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          13 days ago

          Sorry, it just took me a minute to understand that you truly believe that China rather import coal from the US, then protect its own mining industry.