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Bucking Dear Leader, Massachusetts goes coal free today
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Doesn't the Mystic still use
Doesn't the Mystic still use coal? If not, why does it have massive storage sheds outside?
For the bodies.
For the bodies.
Finally!
Pollution from that mess has been contributing to smog in an area of high asthma vulnerability for far too long.
I think
"Fearless Leader" would be more appropriate...
No, that would be an insult
to the memory of Jay Ward.
That is a step...
... in the right direction. I swear, the sky above Boston looks brighter even if I'm smelling fumes from a lit tossed butt right now.
Do cigarettes contain coal?
No
But if you smoke them, you have rocks in your head.
Tareytons have a charcoal
Tareytons have a charcoal filter.
What a shame. Think of the
What a shame. Think of the inhaler manufacturers! What will they do when children no longer get asthma from nearby coal power plants?
Not on the same scale but...
Aren't some homes and businesses still heated with coal in Massachusetts?
Gotta be a handful
I remember as a kid in upstate NY, just once seeing a coal truck pull up to a neighbor's house and pouring coal down the chute into his basement. The house I grew up in had a boarded-up coal chute and a room that was once the coal bin.
Worth looking up
Amazingly, at least as of 2015, there were still more than 3,000 residences apparently heated by coal, which would appear to be three times the number heated by solar. Those numbers seem dubious, but you never know I guess.
Brookline Ice and Coal
They do still sell coal, so someone must be buying it: Get Your Coal Here!
I can't comment about
I can't comment about businesses, but I've only seen one coal stove in someone's house in my whole life.
But... but
What about all those unemployed mining robots in West Virginia?