Bloomberg Is Throwing $500M at Efforts to Shut Down All U.S. Coal Plants

Re:Bloomberg Is Throwing $500M at Efforts to Shut Down All U... by dbhere on Saturday September 23, 2023 @10:44AM (#37623702)

Yes, I'm sure that demand for West Virginia's coal is perfectly elastic between US power plants also located in the Midwest and ones in India and Africa that haven't been built yet.

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Re:Bloomberg Is Throwing $500M at Efforts to Shut Down All U... by htss2013 on Saturday September 23, 2023 @06:49PM (#37628312)

Fossil fuels are priced on a global futures markets. Did you think Canadian oil producers exist in a vacuum where Qatari production, or Indian demand, has no effect on them? Whether Canadian oil actually makes it to India doesn't matter.

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Re:Bloomberg Is Throwing $500M at Efforts to Shut Down All U... by dbhere on Sunday September 24, 2023 @08:22AM (#37632442)

You clearly know nothing about the coal trade.

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Re:Bloomberg Is Throwing $500M at Efforts to Shut Down All U... by dang on Monday September 25, 2023 @02:54PM (#37648762)

Hey, could you please review the site guidelines and stick to them when posting to HN? I'm afraid your comment here broke them rather badly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you know more than someone else, that's great, but in that case please share some of what you know—without putdowns or snark—so the rest of us can learn:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

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