Posted on 07/30/2017 10:03:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
U.S. coal exports have jumped more than 60 percent this year due to soaring demand from Europe and Asia, according to a Reuters review of government data, allowing President Donald Trump's administration to claim that efforts to revive the battered industry are working.
The increased shipments came as the European Union and other U.S. allies heaped criticism on the Trump administration for its rejection of the Paris Climate Accord, a deal agreed by nearly 200 countries to cut carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels like coal.
The previously unpublished figures provided to Reuters by the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed exports of the fuel from January through May totaled 36.79 million tons, up 60.3 percent from 22.94 million tons in the same period in 2016. While reflecting a bounce from 2016, the shipments remained well-below volumes recorded in equivalent periods the previous five years.
They included a surge to several European countries during the 2017 period, including a 175 percent increase in shipments to the United Kingdom, and a doubling to France - which had suffered a series of nuclear power plant outages that required it and regional neighbors to rely more heavily on coal....
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
“Dig, Baby, Dig”
“Employ, Baby, Employ”
“Ship, Baby, Ship”
“Go to the bank, Baby, go”
Wow that’s amazing!!!
“...allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to claim that efforts to revive the battered industry are working.” Reuters can’t help being asses.
This is the type of hateful sh!tty reporting that should get these reporters fired:
“While reflecting a bounce from 2016, the shipments remained well-below volumes recorded in equivalent periods the previous five years.”
Of course the previous 4 years before Obama cut the coal industry off were fine.
You can’t just magic move that coal, you can’t just wish it out of the mines, it takes work and time to get things moving again after Obama did his damnedest to KILL the coal industry.
Check back next year you b!tchass sorry reporters. I bet it will be the best coal year in 3 years next year, by a lot!
I hate the left and they better get right with... whoever they need to get right with if the sh!t ever hits the fan. I am sure I am not alone when I say, I will have zero patience for them.
The democratmedia shows us what to oppose and disbelieve, basically anything it says about anything.
This weekend I am going to take my camera, ride my bicycle around our neighborhood Stralau, take a hundred pictures, put them in a “Album” on Flickr and post the link.
Just because it is so amazingly developed and beautiful. :)
When we moved to Stralau 10 years ago it was a swamp with industrial pollution. You will soon see what Germans can turn such a place into.
sounds cool, ping me when u do. Thanks in advance
What a bunch of hypocrits.
But but but coal is dead don’t these people know this? Oh the blatant disregard for narrative!!
Qatar exports a huge amount of natural gas to Europe, supplanting some coal for electrical generation. The U.S. will expand it’s export of LNG also. Coal use will likely continue to expand based on European demand.
Moving enough product to greatly lower the cost of NG will likely be difficult, as any drop in price will encourage a rise in consumption which would offset increased shipping capacity.
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