Press release today from the Coal-to-Liquids Coalition:

A leading energy developer told Congress today that liquefied coal offers the United States an extraordinary opportunity to take control of its energy destiny in the face of the nation’s growing reliance on foreign fuels and rapidly escalating prices for imported oil.

“At today’s prices, coal-to-liquids is economical and has the power to enhance energy security, create jobs here at home, lessen the U.S. trade deficit, and provide environmentally superior fuels that work in today’s vehicles,” said John Ward, vice president of Headwaters Incorporated, a provider of clean coal technologies for power generation and transportation fuels refining.