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[Raeturbo]

Asteroid perhaps?

[Doctor Gollum]

An ice age would do it too

[dave the builder]

or a clip round the ear and sent to her room with the internet turned off .

An ice age would do it too

NO ! I don't like the cold 

[Raeturbo]

I’m in where’s the coal?

[dave the builder]

I’m in where’s the coal?

"we've got LUMPS of it round the back "

[Doctor Gollum]

I’m in where’s the coal?

I believe we sold it all to China and they burnt it making plastic tat...

Best get a boat and harvest the plastic from the sea* to burn that instead...

*Oh, wait a moment... doh

[Raeturbo]

Ha ha

[dave the builder]

we can still grow our own coal here in the UK and slate ,plenty already planted in the ground
we choose to ship it from half way round the world 

[Raeturbo]

Bloody kids, you couldn’t fart out of tune....or in tune for that matter without either getting a clip around the ear or for worse crimes a bloody good shaking in my day.

[Raeturbo]

we can still grow our own coal here in the UK and slate ,plenty already planted in the ground
we choose to ship it from half way round the world 

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                Too true, but Thatcher and Scargil fkd that up perfectly

[aaronjb]

maybe we need an extinction level event and start again 

If you listen to some people (like TB  ), I think that's called "Brexit" 

[Olympia5776]

we can still grow our own coal here in the UK and slate ,plenty already planted in the ground
we choose to ship it from half way round the world 

. 

                Too true, but Thatcher and Scargil fkd that up perfectly

I'm burning Colombian coal , yeah , shipped half way around the world on high sulpher producing, cheap diesel burning ships .......although I'm sure the margin made on the black coal is augmented by some secreted white powder within.
Great heat and thick black smoke off it though .

[Lizzie Zoom]

we can still grow our own coal here in the UK and slate ,plenty already planted in the ground
we choose to ship it from half way round the world 

. 

                Too true, but Thatcher and Scargil fkd that up perfectly

Because UK coal had become too expensive to extract, with it's commercial viability in serious decline, and with miners who, rightly, were pushing to be paid far more for their very hot, tough, and bloody dangerous work.  Who in their right mind would be a miner now?   Would anyone on here do it?

It is also an out of date means of fueling whoes time will eventually run out, especially when if China conforms and stops building coal fired power stations, let alone stop using the ones they have! But, when you have unlimited slave labour in an authoritarian state, which we in the West are supporting by buying their crap, it will not stop quickly!! 

[Raeturbo]

as I said if it wasn’t for them pair of fannies we could probably still be burning our own coal instead of importing it from halfway around the world supporting their miners/economy/country, and causing more pollution to get it here, not to mention all the lost jobs and the effect on the villages the miners lived in here, and believe me there are still colliers here who would love to be doing their job, our miners are/were far better treated and paid far more than what the Chinese are getting.

[Lizzie Zoom]

as I said if it wasn’t for them pair of fannies we could probably still be burning our own coal instead of importing it from halfway around the world supporting their miners/economy/country, and causing more pollution to get it here, not to mention all the lost jobs and the effect on the villages the miners lived in here, and believe me there are still colliers here who would love to be doing their job, our miners are/were far better treated and paid far more than what the Chinese are getting.

Sorry, but this is 2019 not 1979, so you are way out of date

Let this graph say everything that has to be said about UK coal consumption, and therefore the importance, or not, of UK coal production:



I love steam engines, but I know as a woman of the 21st century, coal for the UK is coming to an end, and only countries like China and India still feel the need for it big time.

Just to add to that other historical facts are that UK coal production peaked in 1913 at 287 million tonnes. Until the late 1960s, coal was the main source of energy produced in the UK, peaking at 228 million tonnes in 1952.  Now look at those figures above to see how King Coal is now no more.