The Plank from the New Republic says the Farm Bill is "Even Worse Than You Thought!. In addition to all the standard stuff, there's a new subsidy for coal-to-liquids to use it as a transportation fuel!
Yes, "to get the tax break, CTL developers will have to capture 50 percent of the carbon they produce," but "CTL releases two and a half times as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere per unit of energy produced as diesel."
Thank you Sens. Jim Bunning (R-KY) and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV).
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Quote: "but CTL releases two and a half times as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere per unit of energy produced as diesel."
Educate yourself.
This is either stupid or lying.
If you're referring to the fact that the L in CTL is diesel, then you're missing the point of the production costs.
From last year, comments on a NYT article: "The use of coal to make liquid fuels will increase CO2 emissions since the conversion plants will emit CO2 and of course the liquid fuel will emit CO2 just as conventional diesel fuel does."
The Washington Post from June. "The most troubling aspect of CTL is that producing it will roughly double climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. That's because liquefying coal releases huge amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere...And once past production questions, there's another obstacle: Tailpipe emissions from cars using CTL would be only slightly better (or no better at all, depending on whom you ask) than from gasoline."
And Wikipedia at least currently says: "All of these liquid fuel production methods release carbon dioxide (CO2) in the conversion process, far more than is released in the extraction and refinement of liquid fuel production from petroleum. If these methods were adopted to replace declining petroleum supplies, carbon dioxide emissions would be greatly increased on a global scale."
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