Sending it to India and China. While they flip us the bird. Great.
China needs the coal for energy to run factories exporting solar panels to the west. The net reduction in CO2 for all those solar panles is ZERO.
Hanging us with the rope that we sell them!
> The diverging trends between shrinking domestic coal use and robust coal exports open the United States to charges of hypocrisy <
Well, yes. But I think “willful stupidity” might be a better charge.
The United States has the largest reserves of coal. Attacks on coal for use as an energy source are actually attacks on the United States. It is no surprise that greenies perpetrating the anti-CO2 hoax... hate the United States. It is "par for the course". It has nothing to do with protecting nature or the well-being of others.
Something went askew in the minds of leftist intellectual leadership decades ago and over time it has lead to all sorts of bizarre conclusions and thought processes.
How else do you explain the claim that supposedly there are now 107 genders which is changing all the time...
Reuters notes the Netherlands as a destination for US coal exports, and remarks hopefully that their imports of US. coal will decline as more renewables come on line in Europe. I wouldn’t bet the farm on that happening. Energiewende is on the rocks in Germany, UK is retrenching, and many of the other states are in rebellious turmoil over the whole Great Reset.
What’s hypocritical about it? We chose to switch a lot of our coal fired power plants over to natural gas - which we also have.
Other countries have chosen to continue burning coal.
Who are we to tell anybody else they can’t burn coal? We happen to have a lot of it. They need it. Seems to me we have the basis of a deal here. What’s the problem?
China constructed 96% of the new coal-fired electricity generating plants in the whole world, in 2023.