China Mine Accident Kills More Than 200

[hunter]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7628357

BEIJING (Reuters) - A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in China's northeastern rust-belt province of Liaoning, killing at least 203 workers in the worst disaster in 15 years to hit the world's most dangerous mining industry.

This is the reality of coal. The wonderful optimism of the United States says it can't happen here. My own opinion is that given a failing U.S. economy it could...

If you purchase goods made in China, and most all of us do, this is not simply a "Chinese" problem -- it is our problem.

[GetTheRightVote]

1. Does * know we do not have any money for all of this ???

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[fedsron2us]

2. The 'price' of coal has just gone up.

From my reading of the news it seems that China has lost almost as many workers in mining accidents in the past two years as the US has troops in Iraq. Add in the cost of the pollution related deaths caused by coal and this begins to look an increasingly dangerous product.