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To: energyplay who wrote (46970)3/4/2004 1:15:09 AM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
EP, <<What about the utilites using their political and banking connections to pressure the coal suppliers ?>>

... forgetaboutit.
The mines are in the countryside, mostly in poorer areas, surrounded by poor peasants, working the mines, and what they say, goes, these days, and so the utilities can go pound sand at a beach or pony up the moolah.

Chugs, Jay