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To: tejek who wrote (396414)	7/6/2008 5:58:35 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1575848

Message 24732948 The Synthetic Fuels Corporation was a U.S. government-funded corporation established in 1980 by the Synthetic Fuels Corporation Act to create a market for alternatives to imported fossil fuels (such as coal gasification). The corporation was abolished in 1985. The original intention of the corporation was to partner with industry (primarily oil companies) to create a market for domestically-produced synthetic liquid fuels, with a goal of producing 2 million barrels of liquid fuel per year within five years. Critics of the Synthetic Fuels Corporation point to its failure to achieve its goals as a reason to prevent government from interfering with free markets. The purported objective behind the Synthetic Fuels Corporation was to move research and development of synthetic fuels out of the Department of Energy and into a public-private partnership that would produce tangible results in a short period of time. Many believe that the drop in worldwide oil prices in the early 1980s played a primary role in obviating the need for the corporation, at least from a short-term economic perspective. As the price of oil continues to climb, industry in the United States and elsewhere is once again looking to alternatives to imported petroleum. Coal gasification is being evaluated once again as a cheaper alternative to imported oil. en.wikipedia.org Coal liquefaction by big oil companies subsidized by the federal government! That's what liberals want? It never amounted to anything due to economic reasons - oil prices fell during the '80's. Would liberals really like it if the government had spent the last 20 years paying several times the market price to big oil companies for 2M barrels a year of liquid fuel developed from coal? No, it would be attacked as a massive subsidy to big oil. BTW this would be unacceptable to todays greens and liberals due to the heavy CO2 production.