From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/7/25 11:47 PM, jillery wrote:   
      
   > That's right.  Anything is cheap when other people pay for it.  Coal   
   > is cheap for China because its actual costs are borne by individual   
   > Chinese and distributed across the rest of the world.   
      
   Coal is cheap, seriously cheap because it's a ready made fuel. You   
   can pretty much just dig it out of the ground & burn it, though   
   there's usually some processing involved.   
      
   You don't want really huge chunks, and I believe they like to   
   clean it so you don't choke up the furnaces too badly...   
      
   Probably the single biggest cost of coal is in transporting it to   
   where ever it's being burned.   
      
   It's incredibly cheap, coal. The PRICE is artificially here, here   
   in the west, but the cost if extremely low.   
      
   We also have more energy in coal than the #1 and #2 countries with   
   the largest "Proven" oil reserves. This is even true if we accept   
   the lie that they have those oil reserves, which they don't.   
      
   Venezuela, Canada... those huge "Proven reserves" numbers are   
   bitumen, tar. It has a significantly higher energy/cost overhead   
   than coal, oil or natural gas, so it can never be a one-to-one   
   conversion.   
      
      
      
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