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Mitt Romney recently told The Associated Press, “We will invest as a nation in new sources of energy, including clean coal, so what exactly is clean coal anyhow? Liquefied coal is a diesel fuel product alternative to petroleum based fuels, created through Coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology and offers itself as a large reserve of local resources in America.

Depending on foreign oil, defending foreign oil fields with American troops to secure our nations energy reserves for trains, planes and automobiles, not to mention the military power to keep us safe domestically is a billion dollar venture that is going to cost our future generations dearly, yet deep in the core of our free nation of democracy and freedom of thought, there is more coal than anywhere else on the planet!

Defending the oil fields in the Persian Gulf alone has been conservatively estimated to provide us with a hidden costof $305 billion annually, while 60 percent of our oil must be currently imported to meet needs, while there is a 250 year supply of coal reserves below our feet.

A single CTL plant for 10,000 barrels of liquefied coal daily costs around $1 billion to build and a world class size CTL plant for producing 80,000 barrels/day can cost as much as $6.5 billion.

It would be more than reasonable to have 300,000 barrels/day in production by 2015 if we gave CTL technology a chance, and by then providing all the domestic needs for our nations military at home.

The biggest factors in making CTL technology a reality are federal incentives that can beat the mafia of foreign fuels in their own game of economics and political power.

With an opening in laws and enough incentive packages, liquefied coal could change the way our nation is forced into acting in other parts of the world that have nothing to do with America.

Liquefied coal is really about being self-reliant right now when we most need to be. We need to rely on ourselves and give alternative technologies a chance to evolve and take control over time, its not necessary to just change overall our tried and tested traditions immediately, that is radical and unnecessarily risky.

CTL technology works, and has been working for decades, it competes with foreign markets in such a way that it is even used in China for commercial gain and economic growth.

CTL technology can even be used to capture greenhouse gases underground and the process of gasification eliminates mercury, sulfur and ash; remaining only Carbon, Oxygen and Hydrogen for fuel technologies, while in electrical energy production, even CO2 is removed and potentially stored in underground deposits.

Liquefied Coal can be an environmentally neutral energy source that stimulates the USs determination for self-reliance and ecological correctness. If environmentalist guidelines are followed and ecological footprints are reduced through indirect measures such as CO2 underground catchment, CTL technology is not only an alternative solution to diesel fuels for the next 250 years, it is also a way to keep our planet in balance with itself, today.

Related:
Future Coal Fuels - CTL Technology Site
Liquid Fuels from U.S. Coal - National Mining Association

Romney on Liquefied Coal:
Romney: Coal into liquid fuel key to plan

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