The mad hatter & his buds have been bad for business here lately.
Oil & gas drilling leases on blm & federal lands here are way way down lately.
But
Speaking of jets, this is part of little older story i was reading .
USAF having to beg wall street for it funds & needs?
The many maybes of global warming or it possible negitives tops all? If cotton candy dosnt come out the tail pipe its not good enough?
Who says the product below(- synfuels couldnt be made even better with more research, time & work?)
But anyways though it was a intresting story- but the mad hatter & his ppl have since killed the program/ planed plants anyways from what i have read since ibelieve.
Using the clean air act laws , the epa, and co2= global warming excuses etc as a ways & means to do it.
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Air Force prods Wall Street to invest in coal-to-liquids plants
Looking for oil alternatives
StoryDiscussionMATTHEW BROWN Associated Press writer with staff reports | Posted: Saturday, March 22, 2008 12:00 am | No Comments Posted
Font Size:Default font sizeLarger font sizeMALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE, Mont. - On a wind-swept air base near the Missouri River, the Air Force has launched an ambitious plan to wean itself from foreign oil by turning to a new and unlikely source: coal.
The Air Force wants to build at its Malmstrom base in central Montana the first piece of what it hopes will be a nationwide network of facilities that would convert domestic coal into cleaner-burning synthetic fuel.
Air Force officials said the plants could help neutralize a national security threat by tapping into the country's abundant coal reserves. And by offering itself as a partner in the Malmstrom plant, the Air Force hopes to prod Wall Street investors - nervous over coal's role in climate change - to sink money into similar plants nationwide.
"We're going to be burning fossil fuels for a long time, and there's three times as much coal in the ground as there are oil reserves," said Air Force Assistant Secretary William Anderson. "Guess what? We're going to burn coal."
In a recent letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Waxman wrote that a promise to control greenhouse gas emissions from synthetic fuels was not enough. Waxman and the committee's ranking Republican, Virginia's Tom Davis, cited a provision in the energy bill approved by Congress last year that bars federal agencies from entering contracts for synthetic fuels unless they emit the same or fewer greenhouse gases as petroleum.
Anderson said the Air Force will meet the law's requirements.
"They'd like to have (coal-to-liquids) because of security concerns - a reliable source of power. They're not thinking beyond that one issue," Waxman said. "(Climate change) is also a national security concern."
http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_aa7de4e6-13e0-55f4-a1c1-ae10bf55d869.html
