Coal-To-Liquid
 Liquid Coal- the wrong direction
Some Members of Congress are pushing the U.S. to adopt a more robust program for turning Americas coal reserves into fuel. Unfortunately, the process for extracting a usable fuel from coal produces a tremendous amount of global warming pollution. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, using coal-derived fuel produces nearly twice as much of the global warming pollutant carbon dioxide as using gasoline, turning a compact car into an SUV from a global warming perspective. Even if we could somehow capture the carbon (which is not yet possible with current technology), coal fuels are still about 10% worse than gasoline.
Rather than spending billions of dollars to support a process that makes the global warming problem worse, we should focus our efforts on increasing fuel efficiency for cars and trucks and developing renewable fuels that can reduce global warming pollution.
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