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Wow, this is pretty amazing. You know a piece of coal-related legislation is a real stinker when even coal-mining region researchers and newspapers start speaking out against it. Here's a taste from the states neighboring West Virginia.
"A major program to subsidize coal-to-liquids makes no sense, since the goals of energy independence and reducing greenhouse gas emissions can be achieved at lower cost through plug-in hybrid vehicles charged with electricity from reduced carbon sources," according to an Issue Brief by the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center.
Next, (via gristmill) we've got newspapers editorials in Kentucky and Roanoke, Virginia chiming in:
Billion-dollar boondoggle: Coal-to-liquid technology is expensive, harmful to the environment and inefficient. The federal government should take no part in subsidizing it.
Wisdom in the media on these issues is rare. Kudos to both papers for putting the long-term national interest above short-term local interests.
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