Recommended reading: Coal to Liquid Plan Means a Kentucky Fried Earth

By Kevin Grandia, managing editor of DeSmogblog.

This one's up on HuffPo:

(excerpt)
An announcement today for plans to construct a $4 billion coal to liquid fuel facility in Kentucky is a sign of the desperate times America is in.

Converting coal to liquid fuel has not been used on a large scale since the 1930’s when Nazi Germany developed the technology because the country had lots of coal but no petroleum of its own.

But the sell-job is well underway right now in Kentucky to re-frame coal to liquid as a miracle answer to America’s energy woes.