[sgtbono2002]

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to realise we could turn coal into fuel.
The technology is old and works.

Ofcourse right when this plant starts to open the Saudi's will lower their price to try to put them out of business , we cvant fall for that one. We need to be self sufficient for oil in this country and tell the others to Kiss it. Just Kiss it.

[Argus]

when this plant starts to open the Saudi's will lower their price to try to put them out of business

Not necessarily, when they can keep selling their crude to China, India and elsewhere for $60-plus a barrel.

[sionnsar]

(fĬsh´er-trōpsh) , method for the synthesis of hydrocarbons and other aliphatic compounds. Synthesis gas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, is reacted in the presence of an iron or cobalt catalyst; much heat is evolved, and such products as methane, synthetic gasoline and waxes, and alcohols are made, with water or carbon dioxide produced as a byproduct. An important source of the hydrogen-carbon monoxide gas mixture is the gasification of coal (see water gas ). The process is named after F. Fischer and H. Tropsch, the German coal researchers who discovered it in 1923.

[fallujah-nuker]

"Of course right when this plant starts to open the Saudi's will lower their price to try to put them out of business"

Right, they will strangle the baby in the crib. We cannot have both energy independence and free trade.