Comments on: Why doen’t the US begin using coal to produce oil? South Africa has been doing do for years!? http://promoonlympe.com/direct-marketing-association/why-doent-the-us-begin-using-coal-to-produce-oil-south-africa-has-been-doing-do-for-years Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:45:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: meightysix http://promoonlympe.com/direct-marketing-association/why-doent-the-us-begin-using-coal-to-produce-oil-south-africa-has-been-doing-do-for-years/comment-page-1#comment-2493 meightysix Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:44:59 +0000 http://promoonlympe.com/direct-marketing-association/why-doent-the-us-begin-using-coal-to-produce-oil-south-africa-has-been-doing-do-for-years#comment-2493 yeah, posting a massive article in the body where elaboration on the question is supposed to be... not the best idea. it takes energy to turn coal into oil. you'd need local power stations (nuclear would be the most efficient and cleanest) to process it without transporting it (transportation would be inefficient and you'd have to have extra power generation without driving up power costs in the area that processing occured). unfortunately, power plants don't build as fast as they do in simcity. any plants operating now would have had to have something magical known as "forward thinking". I don't think we have any of that here in the States.<br><b>References : </b><br> yeah, posting a massive article in the body where elaboration on the question is supposed to be… not the best idea.

it takes energy to turn coal into oil. you’d need local power stations (nuclear would be the most efficient and cleanest) to process it without transporting it (transportation would be inefficient and you’d have to have extra power generation without driving up power costs in the area that processing occured).

unfortunately, power plants don’t build as fast as they do in simcity. any plants operating now would have had to have something magical known as "forward thinking". I don’t think we have any of that here in the States.
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]]> By: Nibblet http://promoonlympe.com/direct-marketing-association/why-doent-the-us-begin-using-coal-to-produce-oil-south-africa-has-been-doing-do-for-years/comment-page-1#comment-2492 Nibblet Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:07:59 +0000 http://promoonlympe.com/direct-marketing-association/why-doent-the-us-begin-using-coal-to-produce-oil-south-africa-has-been-doing-do-for-years#comment-2492 I didn't even take the time to read your entire "question", but, my answer is = Coal costs a lot to process, and creates more pollution. Have you noticed that the skies in China are brown??? That is pollution. When they are having the Olympic games, the residents will have days they will not be able to drive, and the government has halted some companies from producing their products, just so there won't be brown skies for the Olympics. I find that fact very interesting.<br><b>References : </b><br> I didn’t even take the time to read your entire "question", but, my answer is = Coal costs a lot to process, and creates more pollution. Have you noticed that the skies in China are brown??? That is pollution. When they are having the Olympic games, the residents will have days they will not be able to drive, and the government has halted some companies from producing their products, just so there won’t be brown skies for the Olympics. I find that fact very interesting.
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]]> By: Alex http://promoonlympe.com/direct-marketing-association/why-doent-the-us-begin-using-coal-to-produce-oil-south-africa-has-been-doing-do-for-years/comment-page-1#comment-2491 Alex Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:51:59 +0000 http://promoonlympe.com/direct-marketing-association/why-doent-the-us-begin-using-coal-to-produce-oil-south-africa-has-been-doing-do-for-years#comment-2491 Coal is not plentiful in the U. S. A. Simple as that.<br><b>References : </b><br> Coal is not plentiful in the U. S. A.

Simple as that.
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