Can stronger exports help the developing domestic coal oversupply?

摘要

In 2012, when gas prices reached record lows, coal-gas displacement reached record highs and stockpiles reached limit levels, higher exports were one of the mechanisms that the market used to help cure the oversupply. With 2015 looking in some ways like a repeat of 2012, will stronger exports return? Up until a few weeks ago, it looked like exports wouldn't be an option. How quickly things change.