Comment by epistasis

This is not idealized comparison, it's the most immediate choice: continue running as you are, or build something new.

In that comparison, coal loses. Coal loses much harder if you're talking about investing in a brand new facility.

> That sort of wishy-washy language is classic political sales pitch stuff.

There's nothing wishy-washy about concrete numbers with specifics. Saying something like "clean coal" or whatever the heck is going on here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/rein...

is political and wishy washy.

The only coal supporters are those with the wishywashy politics. No hard-nosed quantitative type that runs numbers and is connected to reality supports coal. That would be comical.