Fletcher Christian: why on earth are you tossing money into the air for energy tech that will take a decade to work out? The laws of physics are what they are…not what we’d like them to be.

Why is it that you utterly ignore the one technology that works NOW. Coal conversion [invented 75+ years AGO...] that produces hydrocarbon derivatives at a cost of 45-65 dollars per bbl [depends on who you talk to...]. Need gas? Diesel? Jet-A? JP-5? Plastics feedstock? All there, all at half the world market cost.

You want a heroic project FC? How about an announcement to the world that American is taking it’s military off the world oil grid [and thereby freeing up ALL the POL DoD is currently buying to go back into the commercial market...] and will no longer be a slave to OPEC. That’s right, a goal of 100% coal-based POL for government use…commercial market to follow.

I wonder who’s digestion would spoiled by that speech?