Why does the author provide the information that “Great Britain had large amounts of coal”?

• To reject the claim that Britain was facing an energy shortage in the eighteenth century
• To explain why coal rather than other energy resources became the primary source of heat for homes and industries in eighteenth-century Britain
• To indicate that Britain’s energy shortage was not the result of a lack of fuel
• To explain why coal mining became an important industry in nineteenth-century

This is a multiple choice.