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PA alone has enough coal to provide for all the countries power demands for 200-300 years (at current levels).



Coal is definently an energy source that most people don't know we are so dependent on. Over 50% of our electricity comes from Coal. But this statistic isn't even close to correct.

The US alone consumes some 1.2 billion tons of a coal a year. PA has less than 4 Billion tons of accessible Clean Coal reserves -- meaning it wouldn't sustain the US by itself for even 3 years, let alone the entire world for 2-300.

Now, there is enough Coal throughout the entire country to sustain ourselves electricity-wise for a very long time. As long as we don't care if we use High-Sulfur Coal we can generate enough power to last 100 years.

The problem then becomes, if Oil runs out we have lots of coal, but not enough coal-fired power plants to generate enough electricity. And they take forever to build, so you've got to plan ahead -- this is why the Bush Administration has quietly been looking into a new Nuclear power program since we haven't built one of those in decades.



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