A year after the strike, the industry is still in the pits
It seems that the more the oil squeeze tightens, the bigger grows the glut of other fuels that ought to be easing the pinch. First came last winter's natural gas surplus brought on by price decontrol. Now, from West Virginia to Wyoming, miners are burying themselves under millions of tons of stockpiled coal that no one wants.
The Carter Administration has hoped that a doubling of coal output by 1985 would reduce the U.S.'s dependence on foreign oil. But production has risen by...
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