U.S. Rep. Nick Joe Rahall (D-WV) is ganging up with the coal barons and the U. S. Air Force next week when he hosts the National Coal-to-Liquids Conference at Glade Springs Resort near Beckley, WV. Here’s what he said at the US Air Force Energy Summit:“Few, if any, issues are of greater consequence to war and peace, and to our economic stability and domestic security than the availability of a sufficient supply of reasonably priced energy. There are many possibilities out there but they do not solve our military’s great and pressing energy challenges. From a practical standpoint it is abundantly evident that the answer lies in coal, America’s most promising fuel of the future.” Now that's a mouthful.
Readers might want to check out the perspective in the August 2007 issue of Scientific American: Worse Than Gasoline: Liquid Coal would produce roughly twice the global warming emissions of gasoline!
First off, linking coal-to-liquid with national security is an insult to the intelligence of the average American. Secondly, to call coal the most promising fuel of the future dismisses with the fact that it is the dirtiest fuel on the planet. Thirdly – read this more than once – beefing up CTL technology to fuel those planes will result in a government-sanctioned military assault on the mountains of West Virginia. When these big boys get hunkered down in those plush digs next week and rev up their collective engines we’re going to be looking at Mountaintop Removal on a whole new scale!
If Congressman Rahall and his cronies pull off using taxpayer dollars to fund this boondoggle they'll replace our nation's coal miners with machines faster than you can shake a stick! We might be looking at a mountaineer version of The Battle of Jericho, because the West Virginia Hills are going to come tumbling down!
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