Comment from Currey, C
Coal IMO should receive NO SUBSIDY at all. Let the coal industry sink or swim w/o "socialism" and "welfare" as it wants private individuals to do.
If there is to be subsidies, then they s/b going to environmentally friendly efforts, e.g. conservation, solar etc. Despite the coal industry's propaganda there is no such thing as 'clean coal'. That is the equivalent of being 'partially pregnant'.