Comments on: Mountain Monday: Is Coal the New Oil? https://ilovemountains.org/news/420 END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA! Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:17:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.18 By: Benji Burrell https://ilovemountains.org/news/420#comment-33217 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:17:50 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/news/420#comment-33217 By the way, the all start line up you featured in “Mountain Music of the Week” was smokin!

FYI – Freeborn Man was written by Jimmy Martin, the “King of Bluegrass”, who grew up just east of the Tennessee coalfields in Sneedville.

]]> By: Benji Burrell https://ilovemountains.org/news/420#comment-33214 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:06:41 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/news/420#comment-33214 JW,

Great post this week. Based on your line of reasoning (and price alone), it seems like blowing up mountains in Appalachia for coal IS NOT an adequate replacement for our dependence on foreign oil.

Cant wait to read next week!

Benji

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