re: #98 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Great find, Wheat—

“We’re in a place right now where a tonne of coal costs about $68 to mine in eastern Kentucky and about $12 to mine in Wyoming. They’re importing more Wyoming coal here than they’re using east Kentucky coal. But if you ask people why this is, it’s Obama. They won’t blame the market, they blame the policy. It’s been very convenient to shift it to the black guy.”

I wonder why this is? Why would it be cheaper to mine coal in Wyoming than KY?