people forget about WV has most of it’s coal mines SHUT DOWN.
these here mountains are FULL of BLACK GOLD and i’m sure it would be at the top of list if COAL was used to it’s potential.
That is also true in where I live in PA, but really true in Illinois and Montana, which for a variety of reasons — most of them political — aren’t developing coal. Montana actually has reserves equal to most of the Western US combined.