2025 is projected to be Wyoming’s second worst coal production year

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1. What’s killing coal isn’t regulation, it’s the cost of operating a coal-fired generating station vs. a gas-fired one. Gas comes in a pipe, not a hopper car. Doesn’t need to be stored. Coal needs to be loaded on a conveyor, put through a crusher, blown into a boiler and ignited. Gas mixes itelf with air and blows into the boiler. The construction, operation and maintenance expenses of gas fire are much lower than coal and will stay that way.

2. End coal production.

3. >We are so dependent on coal mining revenues in our state budget,” [Roger] Godby, [UW associate economics professor,] said. “We don’t have an income tax. The sales tax is competitive with other states. We’ve recently reduced our property taxes, which puts more strain on our revenue base.”

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   >Consequently, Wyoming is trying everything to prevent coal production from continuing its 16-year decline. This has included reducing state severance tax rates, previously suing the federal government for unfavorable regulations, researching non-electricity generation uses for coal and mandating studies into carbon capture technology. The latter could potentially make burning coal a much more environmentally friendly option, although it’s largely unproven on a commercial scale and is estimated to be very costly.

   Literally anything but accept the facts and make plans for the future. 

4. …good?

5. Oh noooo, anyways lets focus on the future

6. Try letting your ranchers install solar for once and stop with the bureaucracy against it, Wyoming. They really want it so they can lower energy costs

7. While coal is in terminal decline, over the last 12 months (nov24 to oct25) electricity generation from coal in the US is up 11.05%. Where is that coal coming from? I had just assumed that it would be Wyoming.

    

   https://eia.languagelatte.com/ (raw data from EIA)

8. Thoughts and prayers

9. We can only pray

10. 👏👏👏

11. Wyoming is a true believer in the “West Virginia” economic model

12. Time to ban anything that can be used for energy other than coal. (/s if it was not obvious, though I thought they already did that or was it one of their brain-trust neighbors?)

13. We better double down again!/s. Supply and demand makes dictates, and artificial intervention costs us even more. Coal as is, is nearly over. Clinging on is retrogressive.

14. I guess they are just going to have to throw in the towel, quit killing people with air pollution and turn to clean energy like wind and solar. What a shame. /s

15. They need to ask themselves whether the production decline is from laziness, or maybe no one wants to buy this poison anymore?

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