Of course, the cynical me first thought that an oil company would first pay the money to buy the coal to gas process then bury it until it was a lot more economically prudent to introduce it.
Always have to be thinking of the bottom line, you know.
But... but... they already did that for the "making gas from water"... I don't think they can get away with it again... LOL ...
I dunno. I'm running into a lot of really dumb people out there these days. =;^)