Comments by "HKim0072" (@HKim0072) on "Why the US Is Ditching Coal as an Energy Source || Peter Zeihan" video.

While the European settlers realized American was bountiful in natural resources, no one would have expected this. Really are fortunate: energy, arable land, relatively good weather.
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@Chris.starfleet Yeap, I think India and Russia are the other countries with the most arable land. Pretty sure the weather in the US is a leg up on both countries.
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It's easy to be pro-fracking unless you live near the sites.
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@ForageGardener Obviously, you never read Little House on the Prairie books as a kid. Uncle Sam was giving out free land in the mid to late 1800s.
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Just went to the EIA website: never would have thought that Illinois would be #2 in coal reserves (demonstrated reserve base).
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Yeap, not running of out coal anytime soon. Based on U.S. coal production in 2022, of about 0.594 billion short tons, the recoverable coal reserves would last about 422 years, and recoverable reserves at producing mines would last about 20 years. The actual number of years that those reserves will last depends on changes in production and reserves estimates.
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@LRRPFco52 Nope, I'm a coastal elite American: East Coast, Hawaii and Northern California.
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