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Matt Cartwright: “There's no war on coal going on. It's just the natural…”

Featuring: Matt Cartwright, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 8

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PA 8th Congressional District Debate

Published | Video Starts at 37:38

Right now, the future is with the Marcellus Shale and turning that into abundant local electricity that we can use to power local manufacturing processes. This is what's happening to coal is nothing. There's no war on coal going on. It's just the natural market forces that are leading to natural gas winning out over coal. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Cartwright. Mr. Schrin. The markets are efficient. So when you go through and look at the opportunities for coal today, they're not the same way … (37:38–37:47)

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Asserts that market forces, not policy, are causing natural gas to replace coal.

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