▶ Your Answer : Reading passage contends that coal has various benefits with three reasons. However, the lecturer brings up several points to contradict this view.
First, according to the lecturer, in case of coal, it is not easy to mine, but complicated. As the amount of the coal which is buried in the earth is limited and exhausted, miners have to dig a deep tunnel into ground. This casts dought on the reading passage's assertion that the merits of coal is that it is easy to mine.
Second, the speaker asserts that it is not cheap and easy for coal to be shipped. In fact, it takes a lot of technical skills and money for coal to be shipped, because it is heavy and bulky, when compared other fuel such as oil and natural gas. Also, it needs several trips to move coal by trains and trucks. This refutes the reading passage's view that the cost of transportation of coal is very low.
Finally, the lecturer speaks that it is not true that the coal industry creats a lof of job opportunities for workers. As coal mining companies try to reduce cost of mining, they develope various technology. As a result, due to the development of automatic facilities, the needs of human skills are reduces in this field. In the long run, job apportunities will be declined in the future. This contradicts the reading passage's claims that the coal industry bendfits job opportunities for workers.
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