Didn't Coal Gasification almost conquer the world in the 1940s? But will the enviromarxists let us use it?
The Germans had a crude form of this in the 1940's. I ahve heard reports of several groups working on this and the price point of as long as oil stays at or above $40 a barrel of it being profitable. Besides the best way I can think of winning the war on terror is cutting the middle east off from money. The USA is the worlds largest holder of know coal reserves.