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By a very large margin, coal is the largest reserve of known and recoverable fossil fuel, both in the United States and in the world as a whole. When one counts only the fossil fuel reserves for which technologies for recovery are now available and operative, on an energy content basis coal represents about 96 percent of the total known and recoverable fossil fuel reserves in the United States, with petroleum comprising about 1.8 percent and natural gas about 2.2 percent.
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Wiser, W.H. (2000). Coal. In: Energy Resources. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1226-3_4
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