Coal&#x27;s only cheap when you don&#x27;t bother to count all it&#x27;s negative effects, which will predominately be borne by the poor people you&#x27;re (slightly bizarrely) claiming to serve.<p>Coal isn&#x27;t something worth celebrating, it should be phased out as quickly as possible. Every unit of coal not burned will let us burn twice as much natural gas in terms of CO2, and with far less pollution. And we have more gas than we can burn without blowing our carbon budget anyway.