Action Alert: Liquid Coal = Solid Air

Liquid Coal:

A Step
Backwards

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While the Bush administration was busy undermining hopes
for a G8 climate deal in Germany, the coal industry was hard at work selling a
dirty idea on Capitol Hill.¹ It has to do with new energy legislation
in Congress that could include liquid coal, which is about as energy efficient
and practical as it sounds. Think of it as turning a hybrid into a Hummer. 

Congress needs to know that liquid coal is not the
answer. Tell your Representative today that what we
need are real solutions to global warming like more efficient cars and
clean, renewable energy, not legislation driven by special interests like the
coal industry. 

     http://act.truemajority.org/o/1/t/3/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1172

There's a piece of legislation -- the "Coal Liquids Fuel
Act" (H.R. 2208) -- that, thanks to the powerful coal industry, is gaining
popularity in Washington. If passed into law, this act would be a huge victory
for one of the biggest polluters around and would subsidize a dangerous new fuel
industry that would actually increase greenhouse gas emissions.  It's a step
backwards for the environment, not a step forward.

Tell
your Representative to take a step in the right direction by opposing this
dangerous bill.

Liquid coal is produced when coal is converted into transportation
fuels. This process is so inefficient and requires so much energy that it
produces almost double the global warming emissions as regular
gasoline.² In fact, one ton of coal yields just two barrels of
fuel.³ Not to mention the potential implications that the increase in
water use and coal mining would have on the environment.

We've reached a turning point in history, and global warming is
not a political game to be played in the back rooms of Congress. It's time to
look past corporate interests and do the right thing -- for the nation, and for
the planet.

Your friend,

Ben Kroetz
TrueMajority Field
Director

1 – "US
Torpedoes Hopes For G8 Climate Deal," CommonDreams.org, June 6
2007
2 - "Synthetic
fuels in a world with high oil and carbon prices," Williams, Robert et al.,
8th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, June
2006.
3 - "Economic
Impacts of U.S. Liquid Fuel Mitigation Options," NETL,  July 8, 2006.
DOE/NETL-2006-1237.
 

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