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Comment by rsynnott

6 months ago

I mean, yes. The coal industry put huge amounts of effort into trying to halt oil and later gas, and it didn't really work in the end.

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bwestergard  6 months ago

Do you have a citation for this?

So far as I know, oil production increased coal consumption, and indirectly production, in the early twentieth century.

https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels

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