Coal in Your Car’s Tank

the new american ^ | 06.09.09 | Ed Hiserodt

[Syncro]

Great links!

Bankrupt coal, bankrupt the US

[TigersEye]

Leftists will smear this as a right wing plan to bring radioactive Nazi gasoline to American pumps.

What a plan! I've been waiting all of my life for this and so has my truck. It takes me back to the sixth grade when we put Maltese crosses on the sissy bars of our Stingrays. Bring on the radioactive Nazi gasoline!!!

[hoosierham]

The communistic enviromentals want artificial scargity in order to justify controlling people.

[backhoe]

From my "stack of really old ( 12-31-01 )stuff"--

Oil from Coal....Boon, Bane, or Boondoggle?

[thackney]

Sasol has patented some process but does not control the only coal-to-liquid processes in use. Sasol in Africa is probably the biggest commercial operation.

Germany also did this during WWII to suplement fuel supply.

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

pro-energy bump.

double pro-nuclear bump.

[truthguy]

This stuff is utterly mundane, no pie in the sky thing, and ready to go right now.

I'm in 100% agreement with your post.
Yes I know these things and so do you and a few others but what about the idiots in Washington, D.C. ?

[AmericanVictory]

He’s for the green diseconomy.

[Mr. Lucky]

Your opinion would be much appreciated by all.

[thackney]

Proved process both technologically and economically.

Not as cheap certainly as traditional oil fields but I doubt fuel prices will stay low enough to completely rule out coal-to-liquids.

Politics and Regulations are the biggest factor for use in the US, in my opinion.

[Mr. Lucky]

Are btu content and octane ratings comparable to gasoline (or that even better fuel, ethanol)?

[thackney]

My understanding is that it produces essentially the same fuel, not a comparable fuel. Octane and Cetane and other fuel components are produced by a different process in the Coal-to-Liquid but the end results are still gasoline and diesel blending components.

Octane produce by distillation, a catalytic cracker, a coker or a coal-to-liquids unit is still Octane.

Just as we have added new units to modern refineries process to create more lighter stock like gasoline (when compared to simple distillation), coal-to-liquids is another process creating the same products.

[norraad]

Hitler was a better leader than Obambi (minus the racial hygiene and invading other countries, of course.)

"He certainly was, Ollie"

Esp. energy policy, but now we can just lease patent rights from Sasol and get going easy.

I esp. like their little units that make gasoline right at the well in the mountains where so many little natural gas pockets go unused.