Smokestack Industry

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Smelters. Engine block stampers. Steel girder extruders. They consume tons of coal, and need volumes of heat to do the voodoo they doo.

And they pollute the crap out of the atmosphere as they make the core things that we really need. Bridge cranes. Steel for skyscrapers. Railroad car engines. Iron. Coke. Chromium. Steel.

Like Billy Joel sings. Think: Allentown.



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