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Coal and petroleum are not really competitors with each other because it’s only during the most extreme highs of grid power demand that petroleum generation makes any sense at all.
Like, maybe a few weeks a year it is really viable to burn diesel for electricity during absolute peak demand, but really the contribution of petroleum for grid power generation is a footnote. Close to irrelevant.
The competitor for coal is natural gas, solar, wind, and hydropower.
Emphasizing investment in coal does not come at the expense of petroleum generation because it barely exists. Investment in coal power comes at the cost of renewables.