Angie Craig: “I come to support the Bunning-Domenici amendment of coal to liquids. A vote for coal is a vote against Saudi Arabia. A…”

“I come to support the Bunning-Domenici amendment of coal to liquids. A vote for coal is a vote against Saudi Arabia. A vote for coal to liquids is a vote against Hugo Chavez. A vote of coal to liquids is a vote against Nigeria and for our own production. Now, if we are going to use it, and it is the great energy supply, then we have to make it cleaner, and that is clearly the technology at hand. One of the ways to do so, and not only to use it for transportation fuels, is to run it through the liquefication process. The Idaho National Laboratory, working with Baard Energy, looked at the Ohio projects--46 percent cleaner. If you add biomass to it, 30 percent biomass to sequester the carbon dioxide and the combined cycle cogeneration process, that is what you get. Now, isn't that a technology worth passing on to China, which is the largest emitter, or soon will be, producing more emission with less economy of CO2 than the United States? I think it is time we pushed all technologies, and if they are cleaner, they are better.”