But
coal is not «cheap» for the Appalachian communities destroyed by mountaintop removal (see appvoices.org), nor for the miners killed or sickened because worker safety would be too costly for mine owners, nor for the areas made permanently dead
from the mining practices, nor for the children poisoned by the toxic
fumes of even the cleanest -
burning coal plants, not to mention the entire planet, every species, every community, every neighborhood being damaged and degraded by the global warming
coal burning causes.