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Originally Posted by Mog
You my friend are a bit of a dipstick.
5. We have vast reserves of coal throuout GB. Rather than employ the unemployed and start mining again ( we have coal seams up to 37 feet high) under the Warwickshire basin at 500 meters underground between Coventry and Oxford that is a 100 years of modern minings worth. That's one area alone.
We are paying out to other countries in aid now as we have been doing for years 10 billion pounds plus per year.
If you want to discus the for and against of modern mining and you appear to be the expert. Fire away mister.
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It's been done to death on other threads Mog.
It's the cost of acquisition that's the kicker for domestic coal.
The coal industry has been in decline since the 1st WW, accelerated after the 2nd and the miners strikes did for it in the end.
There has been an inexorable decline in the demand for coal. Even as late as the 1960s, British railways were run on coal power. But, steam power soon vanished in place of diesel and electric. Households used to burn coal for central heating. But, after the Clean Air Act of the 1950s, this rapidly declined as people switched to more modern forms of heating.
I got to take issue with GEaston though "Fame at last for Lancashire"...as if !
Put on your Dunces hat and don't take it off until you have made a list of 20 things Lancashire is famous for.