Clean New Baseload Generation

Coal-to-Liquids & Coal-to-Gas

• Coal Can Fill Up the Tank
• Coal-to-Liquids are Clean
• U.S. Department of Defense Major Customer
• Coal-to-Gas Can Ease America’s Gas Problem

Carbon Capture & Storage

Plug-in Electric Hybrids

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Fast Fact
U.S. production of natural gas has decreased since 2000, despite a 30% increase in wells.

Coal-to-Liquids & Coal-to-Gas

America is Running on Empty, But Coal Can Fill Up the Tank

The United States continues to increase its dependence on oil imports as domestic production has declined, and a growing number of experts forecast peak oil.  U.S. oil imports are likely to reach 62 percent and world oil demand is expected to increase more than 40 percent by 2030, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Petroleum accounts for about 40 percent of U.S. energy consumption, and about 95 percent of U.S. transportation is dependent on liquid fuels.  For every 10 barrels of oil consumed in America, six are imported, primarily from the Middle East where Saudi Arabia holds 27 percent of the world’s oil.  But America has more coal than Saudi Arabia has oil, and five times more coal than U.S. oil and natural gas reserves combined. 

America can break its addiction to imported oil through greater use of coal-to-liquids, a process that uses proven technology to transform coal into transportation fuels, including diesel and jet fuel.  The energy in U.S. coal is equivalent to some 800 billion barrels of oil, more than three times the energy equivalent of Saudi Arabia’s oil.