[Turret Gunner A20]

For more on Gasoline and Petroleum:

http://eteam.ncpa.org/issues/?c=gasoline-and-petroleum For more on Energy Issues:

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_Category=22

[RightWhale]

coal-to-liquids can compete if the price of conventional oil is above $30 per barrel.

No, and that's the most realistic part of the article.

[RC2]

This country of ours should produce oil from coal.......we are helping finance development of coal fields in China. Our tax money at work again!!!!!

[The Great RJ]

During the last years of WW-II the Germans were making “synthetic” fuels from coal after supplies of oil from Romania were disrupted by Allied bombing.

[TWohlford]

Gosh, didn’t we say the same thing about shale and coal circa 1973?

Strangely, when the government deregulated the price of oil, and even had a few tax credits for exploration, we suddenly had lots of the stuff.

This proves the point — that when the market hits a certain point, alternatives tend to make themselves available. Lefties know that, since they want to make gasoline $6 per gallon to prompt such alternatives. However, they fail to understand that in their scheme, the “extra” $3 would go to the government instead of the producers of energy.