Enough coal for more than thousand years. We could read that the coal is now only very deep in Germany. But as they were building the subway in Essen, there was everywhere very much coal!

Hello, much fun with the corona Mask Carnival fashing; my Computer Shop is open: Pick-Up Service, Computer-Repairs etc. are allowed! But the big Electronic stores / my competitors are closed! I make aproximately 12% more revenue with my shop! Some customers think they must help my shop and are paying aproximately € 5 or even € 15 more ! ! Better margins and more profit, a very big shopping mall here in the near is bancrupt, but the chinese restaurant there is still open / pick-up service, to take the food is allowed! A very big nice italian Café - Restaurant with very excellent quality is closed. The boss Frank is a very good customer from my Computer-Shop. I think the corona virus came out of the communist P4 bio weapon laboratory in Wuhan near the fish-market. They did not let the people from the WorldHealth-Organisation inside the Lab. And yes, the black forrest is a very nice area and now we have very beautyful normal winter wheather! Take care on yourself and best wishes

Hans

I live in the 4th largest US County with a pop. of 53k. No coal.

But lots of gold. With the main transcontinental rail and highway route running right through the middle, we should be able to buy anything we need. But little known to most, the Biden moratorium on oil and gas on federal lands also puts a moratorium on surface disturbance "permits". No drilling for gold either. You can still stake a mining claim, but you can't do anything with it except pay the feds the annual "maintenance fee".

No doubt the moratorium will become permanent as they phase Uncle Joe out.

Looking at the state of things now I wish my grandfather and father stayed with the farms. I'm city raised, but remember as a child visiting relatives in farm country. All gone now except for memories and photographs. My wife grew up on a dairy and potato farm, but that ended when she was in her late teens. She misses the farm, but it too is long gone. If I were even 20 years younger today, I'd be looking for a small farm, but at my age I will have to take my chances what's left of Free America will hang in there until after we're dead.

We are not completely devoid of the skills of the previous generation as my wife and I grew and preserved fruits and vegetables for years and still have the knowledge. We can do some things, but not as much as when we were younger.