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Countdown to $100 oil (56)- final diary | 51 comments (51 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
Can we stop calling coal "cheap"? (4.00 / 3)
It's nothing of the sort. It's just that the monetary costs are low for the corporations digging or burning the stuff, and the actual costs are dumped on others.

That's no more "cheap" than shitting in someone's garden can be called "cheap toilets"

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 at 10:36:00 AM EST
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Re: Can we stop calling coal "cheap"? (none / 0)
It's cheap if you don't care about other people...

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Thu Jan 3rd, 2008 at 11:58:47 AM EST
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