Increasing Demand for Cheap Coal

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Coal used to be the same price as oil but now the price of oil has gone up and the price of coal has gone down. For $47 you could get a ton of coal. Europe is paying $50 to have it shipped across the Atlantic ocean. The use of coal across the world has gone up 27%. Coal is a cheap fuel that is dangerous to the earth itself. It one of the largest contributors to global warming. The U.S. Department of Energy says that in the next five years there will be about 1000 more power plants fueled by coal. This will change the climate drastically all over the world.