[IrishMike]

I believe during the latter part of WWII, the german luftwaffe planes were flown with a fuel derived from coal.

[SampleMan]

You are correct. Also, kerosene always came from coal, but it wasn't broken down the way they are talking about now.

The trick is to protect their capital investment from falling oil prices. How? Sell vast quantities into the futures market. This is what they are doing with wind power generated electricity.