This is such a no brainer that I would have thought even the Democrats could figure it out. But then again with Obama and his sycophants in charge I'm not surprised.
We generate a lot of our electricity with coal-in fact more than half. Coal can be liquefied to a high quality diesel or even aviation fuel. What if we build Nuclear Power Plants to generate our electricity and switched the coal that would have gone into production of electricity over to make liquefied fuel for transportation. This of course depends on the price of oil. At low oil prices it's cheaper to get our transportation fuels from oil but at some high prices coal could be competitive.
And by the way the same is true for natural gas. Natural gas can also be an effective transportation fuel. Using natural gas to generate baseline electrical power is nothing short of criminal. Let's pursue both these technologies.
Natural gas is a very good feedstock for conversion to liquid fuels all by itself. If natural gas is available conversion to liquid fuels using natural gas and coal is more efficient than using either natural gas or coal alone. A nuclear - natural gas - coal process would work nicely as well.
Synthesized liquids would require little new infrastructure compared to compressed natural gas and so would be less expensive and more quickly brought on line. Not that natural gas isn’t a good engine fuel, for it certainly is.
This stuff is utterly mundane, no pie in the sky thing, and ready to go right now.