But go back and look at the Obama rule. When that clean power plant rule came in and the war on coal was taking place in the Obama administration, The state of West Virginia in two years lost direct and indirect coal mining jobs, 30,000 in two years, direct and indirect. So it didn't just happen, obviously gas became competitive, certainly became competitive as competitive source. But there's a reason, though, the Chinese continue to build these plants, because they know and for some reason we don't. (03:10–03:20)
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