The United States has more coal reserves than any other country…enough to last us 250 years at current rates of consumption. Over half of our electricity is derived from coal. Yet the government has recently cancelled the FutureGen project that would have developed the world’s first coal-fueled near-zero emissions commercial scale plant to be built in IIllinois. Does this mean a shift in energy strategies away from coal to renewable energy sources? Will our massive coal reserves now be exported to other countries to burn in their power plants?