Coal Country elected President Donald Trump out of fear that it is the government that is killing the coal industry. While there have been regulations that have decimated the sector, it has been the free market that is destroying this century-old energy source.
What is this natural resource? Natural gas.
Don’t believe it? Here is a great dynamic chart that looks at how natural gas overtook coal in the last 30 years.
Changes to America’s electricity grid since 1985. Natural gas rises and coal falls pic.twitter.com/6i0foRr8KM
— Robert Wilson (@countcarbon) March 31, 2019
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