From: terrell.michael.a@gmail.com   
      
   On Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 10:55:52 AM UTC-5, amdx wrote:   
   >    
   >   Yes, the only increase my admittedly short search found was W. Virginia   
   > where jobs increased 12.7% during 2017 and 2018. The problem, coal is    
   > fighting the low cost of natural gas because of the increase in fracking.   
      
      
      Coal is still needed to manufacture steel. Both to make Coke, and to add   
   carbon to the iron ore. I grew up in a steel town. Long trains of open topped   
   cars deliver coal, around the clock. They are dumped from the bottom as they   
   pass over a huge hopper,   
    to be delivered to one of the piles.   
      
   They had piles that were hundreds of feet high, since they kept more than a 30   
   day supply on site, in case of strikes or mining problems. Across the highway   
   is an Owygen reduction plant where air was compressed to liquid, and the   
   various gasses are    
   boiled off. The Nitrogen goes to making fertilizer. The oxygen has three   
   markets, but there is a pipleline directly to the furnaces to make steel. The   
   rest was sold for medical or welding. The rarer gasses were sold to various   
   industries. Everything from    
   Helium, up.   
      
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