According to the
League of Conservaton Voters:
Some Members of Congress are pushing the U.S. to adopt a more robust program for turning America’s coal reserves into fuel. Unfortunately, the process for extracting a usable fuel from coal produces a tremendous amount of global warming pollution. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, using coal-derived fuel produces nearly twice as much carbon dioxide (a key global warming pollutant) as using gasoline, turning a compact car into an SUV from a global warming perspective. Even if we could somehow capture the carbon (and no technology exists today,) coal fuels are still about 10% worse than gasoline.
Rather than spending billions to support a process that makes the global warming problem worse, we should focus our efforts on increasing fuel efficiency for cars and trucks.
MoveOn has an
on-line petition in opposition to the legislation.
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