Post on National Journal's Energy Experts Blog re: What's Really Causing Coal's Decline?

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Correcting the Question's Premise

Let’s start by correcting the premise. The simplest answer to the question posed by The National Journal this week is “hyperbole” is behind the talk of coal’s “decline”. Like Mark Twain’s quip about his own demise, the news of coal’s decline is greatly exaggerated. It is, nonetheless, the cause for legitimate concern among those who value affordable electricity from a secure and abundant domestic energy source. So, let’s look at the question from a more dispassionate perspective.

Read the entire piece here: www.nma.org/pdf/040912_quinn_nj_blog.pdf