[truthguy]

At $100/Barrel for Crude, coal and natural gas liquefaction makes sense. We should pursue this for the following reasons:

1. We have abundant resources of coal and natural gas right here in North America.

2. The production of liquid fuels can produce jobs- Good Jobs that pay well, not these BS green jobs that are subsidized by taxes.

3. National Security- With the situation in the middle east, we are always going to have uncertainty in oil supplies.

4. We can use Nuclear Power to generate the electricity we need and then take the coal and natural gas that are being wasted in the production of electricity and substitute it for transportation fuels.

5. Many vehicles can run directly on natural gas right now and the technology exists right now to run on natural gas.

6. The Natural Resources Defense Council is completely against it, and that alone should be good reason to pursue it.

[Ancesthntr]

4. We can use Nuclear Power to generate the electricity we need and then take the coal and natural gas that are being wasted in the production of electricity and substitute it for transportation fuels.

We should start using Thorium to power reactors. We only use uranium because we needed to produce weapons-grade U-235 and Plutonium, not because it really made any sense. Thorium is far more abundant, cannot be made into a bomb and produces less radiation. In fact, the Thorium that is in coal actually has more energy than the coal itself - if put through a reactor. As it is, it is merely part of the tailings and viewed as being very harmful waste.