re: #72 Belafon

Perry and Trump and whoever else on his team are measuring things in terms of cost only: Pile up enough coal and people will want it over solar because it’ll be cheaper. They’re only thinking in terms of immediate monetary cost.

Not only does this fail to take into account the non-monetary reasons people choose things, but it also misses that a lot of places have converted to things other than coal. They’d have to build a coal plant to use the coal.

It also overlooks the relative costs of producing and moving various types of energy.