Buggy Whip maker files for bankruptcy protection.
Whalebone Corset plant lays off workers.
Surely you jest.
Jumping the gun by a several decades, eh? Coal provides over 30 percent of the globe's energy, about the same as oil, a bit more than natural gas, and 2.6 times as much as all renewables combined... even after being the target of the anti-coal movement for several decades.
And the percentage is anot decreasing...
That would only be an apt analogy if a U.S. President had ordered the slaughter of all horses about 50 years before the invention of the automobile.
We are replacing coal with wind farms. It would be like replacing the horse and buggy with one of these:
With 25 yrs. as a unit operator of a 2 unit 1400 megawatt station. I can assure you you cant produce 5 million cubic ft. of steam per hour by burning unicorn farts. We have about 300 years of supply identified and in production. Get govt out of western lands and that number jumps exponentially. The Black Thunder mine was one we would get fuel from on occasion, off long term contract. That was some of the best stuff, Low ash and sulfur content, but high btu content. That stuff was like racing fuel. Brilliant to force out of production. A fabulous natural ressource of this country just going to waste. FUBO.
Your analogy is false.
An accurate analogy would be a buggy whip maker forced into bankruptcy in 1750 when they were in great demand because the king issued an edict that buggy whip manufacture polluted too much and they henceforth could not be made from leather. This after forcing them to spend billions on initially reasonable but then increasingly non-sensical pollution control devices.
Even that is not a