What can I do to help develop CTL?
Federal participation in the development of a robust CTL industry is critically important. Your representatives need to hear your voice on this vital issue, so make yourself heard.
We strongly encourage you to write your legislators and urge them to support CTL technologies by providing the incentives detailed on our What Congress Must Do page. In order to assist you in this, the National Mining Association (NMA) has created the Online Advocacy Campaign Team (ACT) for Mining (www.actformining.org) to help you communicate your support for CTL to your members of Congress.
Personalize this letter ... for use with your local newspaper or with your elected representative:
Gas prices at the pump are just a symptom of our growing oil addiction and our increasing reliance on energy from unstable foreign regimes to provide the energy we need. Congress should start now to develop more of our domestic energy supply — and the most affordable and abundant supply of energy we have is coal. The U.S. has the world's largest coal reserves. No foreign country can confiscate or nationalize our coal; it's secure within our own borders.Already coal generates over half of our electricity. But it can also be used to provide ultra clean transportation fuels. In fact countries like China and South Africa are already using technology that liquefies coal to power cars, trucks and jet engines. For our wallets and for our national security, we need to become more energy independent. And coal can help us get there.
Congress can start by partnering with companies to jump start the coal-to-transportation fuels industry. Providing incentives to get billion dollar plants off the drawing boards and on line would send a strong message to the oil cartel. The message is: we're serious about becoming more self-reliant on energy.
Please utilize ACT Online and make your voice heard — tell Congress that America needs to get its future transportation fuels from coal.
