[garbageseeker]

There is a process called coal gassification where you can turn coal into synthetic gasoline. the Germans during WWII, used this method for their supply of diesel and high octane gasoline fuel. The South Africans currently use this method for their diesel supply. Its a gritty process because low grade coal is used, but if you use "clean coal" is used maybe we can augment our tight gasoline supply. Shell Oil is currently researching this to increase their market.

http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer-Tropsch
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_oil
http://www.fe.doe.gov/aboutus/history/syntheticfuels_history.html

[Mia T]

thanks.

I wonder if the requisite wood-based fuels makes this process a non-starter, politically....

[Mia T]

From your link, missus clinton's techno-babbling notwithstanding:

'[W]hile sequestration is already in limited use, the science and economics around large-scale sequestration strategies are, as yet, unconvincing.'