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Re:America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs by arethuza on Thursday October 13, 2016 @08:54AM (#12700393)
The UK had huge coal reserves and decent sized oil reserves - the former powered the Industrial Revolution and the latter kept the lights on during the 1980s.
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Re:America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs by jomamaxx on Thursday October 13, 2016 @03:18PM (#12703296)
Coal definitely was important for the industrialized revolution, but UK oil is not a hugely important ingredient today. They would be rich without it.
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