Montana's Coal to Gas Conversion Proposal: Can it Be Up and Running Quickly?

Gasoline Prices Are Heading Higher by the Hour: Here's Montana's Answer

The State of Montana is working on the technology for Coal-to-Liquids as a way to convert part of it's 120 Billion Tons of coal to fuel the United States millions of cars and trucks.

Montana may have the answer to America's energy dichotomy: using more fuels every year (and importing the greater portion of it) and producing less every year in the United States. 

Donald Trump, New York ,   The Apprentice on NBC and New York City  real estate baron, owns a golf course and luxury home development on Southern California's coast.

On the other side of his mountain lays a covered-over landfill where millions of tons of garbage and bacteria are creating energy, fueling a turbine power plant with the methane ("natural") gas produced.

Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer has a similar idea for utilizing his states 120 billion tons of coal to produce fuels. (This coould yield 180 billion Barrels of SynFuels. This coal would be converted into liquids through a Fischer-Tropsch process, heating coal into a gas in a contained reaction requiring no additional energy. (eletric power for example.)

The gases given-off can have the arsenic, mercury and sulfur removed, than are distilled into a synthetic form of crude oil which can then be further refined, creating clean-burn fuel. The byproducts would be naptha, surfboard waxes (you always wondered where they came from) cosmetic chemicals and fertilizer.

Fischer-Tropsch Liquidsare gasoline, diesel and kerosene (jet fuel) that are made synthetically (SynFuel) that is, from coal or natural gas instead of imported oil. These are clean-burning, high-performing fuels that require no engine modifications.
The state of Montana is sponsoring the development of the technology for Coal-to-Liquids to provide fuel for the United States millions of cars and trucks.