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Transportation is another big energy user and that cannot easily be powered by gas. So oil needs to be added to that. Why do you include nuclear, which is more expensive than coal, which already being displaced by gas. In a cheap gas world it will never make economic sense to build nuclear power plants.

US coal production has fallen in half since 2007 all by itself (link), simply because gas has gotten cheaper. At this rate it will be pretty much gone in 20 years.

It would seem nothing needs to be done.

https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-states/coal-production

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