No. Compressor stations are built along the pipeline consuming a portion of the Gas as fuel to keep pushing it along and overcoming the constant pressure drop created by friction.
Gas and Liquid pipelines have losses due to friction. They require some other form energy to overcome those losses. You either burn the fuel in the pipeline, or consume some other source of energy to drive pumps or compressors.
Nuclear plants are Satan, and for some reason so is hydro, but their "fuel" efficiency is not a factor.
The gasification concept is practically pollution-free other than the dust and exhaust from ground equipment. Plus pipelines generate no electromagnetic induction issues.
Gas and Liquid pipelines have losses due to friction. They require some other form energy to overcome those losses. You either burn the fuel in the pipeline, or consume some other source of energy to drive pumps or compressors.
We also have tons of NG, pipelines already crisscross the US. NG is almost free, and could be used to power the booster pumps...I'm not sure if the two are miscible, but they might be, allowing NG to flow from its source and coal gas to be added where it is produced.
Being sold as a cleaner/safer technology, think of the jobs it would create.
Pull out all the stops!