Price of coal affecting Santa

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Over the past year the price of coal has increased by a greater percentage than that of gold. This is due to several factors some of which are related to a decrease in production in some arias and an overall increase in demand. This leads me to believe that it could be a distinct possibility that Santa may have to cut back on the amount of coal he doles out to bad children. Moving some of the children from the naughty list to the good list is a possible option, also decreasing the size of coal that the naughty children get in their stockings could also be another way of minimizing costs in this time of economic uncertainty.
Graphs and charts can be found at:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/coal/page/coalnews/coalmar.html