On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:15:50 -0400, John
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· Contract with SASOL [a large South African corporation]
to construct and initially operate several domestic US
medium sized coal to petroleum conversion plants. These
plants should be sited as close as possible to existing high
production coal mines to minimize transportation costs.
These plants will produce not only liquid fuels such as
gasoline, diesel and JP4 jet fuel, but also feed stocks for
our petrochemical industries. Note that the waste from this
process will provide feedstock for the next suggested
project. Coal to oil conversion is economically viable when
the price exceeds about 50$US per bbl. The world price is
currently about twice this.
http://www.sasol.com/sasol_internet/...vid=1&rootid=1


This project is sitting about 20 miles south of me in Manahoy City, PA.
The project has been stopped in its tracks when the government pulled
the committed funds from the project. This area is sitting on the
largest antricite hard coal deposit in the world. If these projects
would get set up the oil industry would have some competition and that
sure would be a problem for them.




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Thanks for the information and the link. Another item to
write my congresspersons on.

Evidence continues to mount that the so called US energy
shortage is totally a created artifact to maintain the price
of imported oil and the market position of the
importers/speculators.


-- Unka George (George McDuffee)
...............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).