Did not some of the change began with the multiple coal strikes in the 1950's, and some in American industry said "enough", Industry leaders started to look for ways to bypass coal and unionized miners.
Dominic Mazoch posted:Did not some of the change began with the multiple coal strikes in the 1950's, and some in American industry said "enough", Industry leaders started to look for ways to bypass coal and unionized miners.
No!
Dominic Mazoch posted:Did not some of the change began with the multiple coal strikes in the 1950's, and some in American industry said "enough", Industry leaders started to look for ways to bypass coal and unionized miners.
Nope, the real reason was that post WWII oil and then natural gas supplanted coal as a fuel. There is an obvious one, post WWII the steam locomotive went the way of the dinosaur and other big users of coal found they had a cleaner, more efficient alternative. Put it this way, China is making a big push to get off of coal, and their coal miners are not unionized, the reason they are trying to get off of it is the same reason the US got off of it, and that is it is dirty, it pollutes, and economically puts them at a disadvantage. I think coal would have died a long time ago, if it weren't for the subsidies it got and the idea that was pushed, especially during the oil shocks of the 1970's, that coal was the 'answer' to energy independence, and as a result it was not allowed to die.
