Bush Touts Coal use for energy independence

http://www.theintelligencer.net/news/articles.asp?articleID=3838

WHEELING — West Virginia’s coal reserves could be one of the keys to curing the United States’ “addiction” and dependence on foreign oil, President Bush said Wednesday.

During his address at the Capitol Music Hall, underwritten by the Ogden Newspapers Inc. and other local sponsors and hosted by the Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce, the president spoke of a brief meeting he had with Gov. Joe Manchin on the way downtown from the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport.

During that meeting with the president, Manchin discussed coal liquefaction — a chemical process that turns coal into a fuel that can be used in vehicles — as an alternative energy source for the nation.

“Joe talked to me about how we (could) use the natural resources of the state of West Virginia in such ways to become less dependent on oil,” Bush said.

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But if reserch can yield a better way to use it, go for it. They're still trying.

Personally, I don't believe we can sequester all that CO2. And even if we could, it would require mandatory regulations, which in this political climate simply don't exist.