The British Isles are coal rich. Common sense would say that is where their energy should come from. Of course common sense would say that they should expel the filthy mudslum invaders too.
Lemmings jumping into the sea.Maybe they're alarmed by how much their sea levels have risen from burning all that coal since their industrial revolution.
The British Isles are coal rich. Common sense would say that is where their energy should come from.
Even if there were no political interventions discouraging the use of coal, little of the coal used in the UK would be extracted in the UK. Although the country is coal-rich, as you say, it requires expensive deep mining techniques and can’t compete with lower-quality imports extracted more cheaply. British coal hasn’t been competitive since the Thatcher government privatised the industry in the 1980s. British coal will remain where it is until its extraction again makes economic sense - as is inevitable sooner or later.
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